EBCDIC <--> ASCII conversion

[Michael Meissner]

In article <831 at compnect.UUCP> johncore at compnect.UUCP (John Core )
writes:

| why write code do convert ascii to EBCDIC. it comes with
| Unix. it's called dd

However, unlike say ISO646 or ASCII, there is no one standard EBCDIC.
There are various EBCDIC's which share a lot of characters in common,
but have some different translations.  Also, you have the fun in most
EBCDIC's in that there are two representatons for '[' and ']'.  One
that your printer will print, and one that your terminal will display
correctly.
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