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From: petew@meaddata.com (Pete Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: ASCII<=>EBCDIC problem solved -- here's my solution!
Date: 5 Apr 1994 23:53:05 GMT
Organization: Mead Data Central, Dayton OH
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Message-ID: <2nstl1$brl@meaddata.meaddata.com>
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Hi Fellow Perl[er|ite|ette]s:

First of all, thanks to everyone who kindly responded to my
requests for help with ASCII/EBCDIC translations.  While I was
a bit surprised that there seemed to be no library modules to
do these conversions, I (with a little help from my friends)
now offer you just such a beast...

So much of our work revolves around IBM-style character conversions,
that I found it hard to live without this little item.  (I also hate
having to kick off "dd" as a subprocess!).

This is based on the ASCII<->EBCDIC/IBM tables from the GNU dd 
source, so data that converts properly with "dd" should perform
similarly with this.  I've tested out the EBCDIC<->ASCII routine
quite a bit and it seems to work as advertised.  The ASCII<->IBM
stuff hasn't been tested at all (as I have no data to do so),
so CAVEAT WHOMEVER.

Please direct any complaints, bugs (and especially fixes!) to me
and I will handle reposting or whatever.

Enjoy, all you people living in the EBCDIC past (like me :-)


Pete

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