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- From: donn@carson.u.washington.edu (Donn Cave)
- Subject: Re: echo question
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.191931.23470@u.washington.edu>
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- Organization: University of Washington
- References: <17935@autodesk.COM> <19921117182407SEB1525@MVS.draper.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 19:19:31 GMT
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- SEB1525@MVS.draper.com (Steve Bacher) writes:
-
- |In article <17935@autodesk.COM>,
- |dansmith@Autodesk.COM (Daniel Smith) writes:
-
- |>> > echo 'first:this=that=other+second:this=that=other+' | tr '=+' '\011\012'
- |>
- |>> Hardcoded octal ascii is "portable"???
- |>> Escaping syntax in tr is "portable"???
- |>
- |> OK, name an english-language version of Unix this'll bomb on.
-
- | I haven't seen AIX/370, but I'm sure it'll bomb, being EBCDIC.
-
- Sorry, AIX/370 is ASCII, and the above command works identically on AIX/370,
- Ultrix 4.2, and OSF/1. You're not the first person to assume that ASCII text
- somehow produces bit patterns that are distasteful to IBM 370 architecture
- computers.
-
- What about non-English-language UNIXes - is there such a thing, that would
- fail to do what one would expect with the above command?
- Seems like it would be more trouble than it's worth to derange the
- character set to do other things with 1 .. 040.
-
- Donn Cave, University Computing Services, University of Washington
- donn@cac.washington.edu
-