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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!vtserf!black-ice.cc.vt.edu!valdis
  2. From: valdis@black-ice.cc.vt.edu (Valdis Kletnieks)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.unix.shell
  4. Subject: Re: echo question
  5. Message-ID: <9818@vtserf.cc.vt.edu>
  6. Date: 20 Nov 92 21:15:45 GMT
  7. References: <17935@autodesk.COM> <19921117182407SEB1525@MVS.draper.com>
  8. Sender: usenet@vtserf.cc.vt.edu
  9. Organization: Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
  10. Lines: 16
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  12. In article <19921117182407SEB1525@MVS.draper.com> SEB1525@MVS.draper.com (Steve Bacher) writes:
  13. >>> >        echo 'first:this=that=other+second:this=that=other+' | tr '=+' '\011\012'
  14. >>        OK, name an english-language version of Unix this'll bomb on.
  15. >
  16. >I haven't seen AIX/370, but I'm sure it'll bomb, being EBCDIC.
  17.  
  18. Actually, AIX/370 *is* ASCII based.
  19.  
  20. IBM did some truly strange things in AIX/370.  But making it
  21. EBCDIC-based was not among them.  I however would not be surprised
  22. if they *tried*, but gave up when they realized just how much
  23. code exists that blindly assumed that (int)'z' - (int)'a' == 25.
  24.  
  25.                 Valdis Kletnieks
  26.                 Computer Systems Engineer
  27.                 Virginia Tech
  28.