WhHat's a good website? thanks

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Hi,

dafon wrote:
> WhHat's a good website? thanks
>
>
How about "man iconv"? (for a pure ebcdic to ascii, etc. transformation)

Cheers,

Jochen

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what? what ? what?

what are you talking about?

isn't this going to drive me crazy enough?

I ask for a website and you give me
"man iconv"

Can I have an ounce of sanity from someone here?

()*&^()&*()*&)(*&()*&()*& !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!

what?
what?
what?
what could you possibly be talking bout?

what ?









"Jochen Kaiser" <Jochen.no.M.spam.kaiser@t-online.de> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> dafon wrote: 
> How about "man iconv"? (for a pure ebcdic to ascii, etc. transformation)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jochen

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On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 15:26:19 -0600, dafon wrote:

> what? what ? what?
>
> what are you talking about?
>
> isn't this going to drive me crazy enough?
>
> I ask for a website and you give me
> "man iconv"
>
> Can I have an ounce of sanity from someone here?
>
> ()*&^()&*()*&)(*&()*&()*& !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!
>
> what?
> what?
> what?
> what could you possibly be talking bout?

Forgive me, I couldn't resist.

try "man man"

--
Jake Roersma

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Ok now I am really  going insane.
Why don't you check with your robot and see if he is asking for bread in
french!!!!!!




"Jake Roersma" <jaker@IHATESPAMcopiosus.net> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 14 Jun 2004 15:26:19 -0600, dafon wrote:
> 
>
> Forgive me, I couldn't resist.
>
> try "man man"
>
> --
> Jake Roersma
>

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Let me guess, you are a Windows user, aren't you?

/Victor


"dafon" <dafon@sdafon.net> wrote in message news:<aaCdncA_ArWLAlPdRVn-uQ@comcast.com>...[vbc
ol=seagreen]
> Ok now I am really  going insane.
> Why don't you check with your robot and see if he is asking for bread in
> french!!!!!!
>
>
>
>
> "Jake Roersma" <jaker@IHATESPAMcopiosus.net> wrote in message
>  news:a3b27b16b86b7128e0d24de8ed7b61ad@ne
ws.teranews.com... 

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why yes!
I went with windows!


"Victor M?ller" <victor_google@digifirm.se> wrote in message
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> Let me guess, you are a Windows user, aren't you?
>
> /Victor
>
>
> "dafon" <dafon@sdafon.net> wrote in message
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dafon wrote:

> why yes!
> I went with windows!

Then you won't have available to you any tools relevant to
the difficult task of converting the data in a tape written by
one of the old EBCDIC based IBM OSs into a form suitable for
use on a modern OS.

This is not just a matter of converting the character code,
although that can be hard enough, as there were many different
EBDCIC code pages. You have also to cope with the fact the
the old IBM OSs used structured files. Not every byte in such
a file necessarily represents a character. Some byte sequences
may be block descriptors or record descriptors. These were not
encoded in the character code, but were binary values. If you
translate these bytes from one character code to another, you
will render them incomprehensible.

Since these file formats were going out of fashion at the same
time as the Web was coming into fashion, you probably won't
find much information about this topic on the Web.

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>>If you translate these bytes from one character code to another, you will
render them incomprehensible.

Even if I save it as a new file?



"Charles Jardine" <cj10@cam.ac.uk> wrote in message
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> dafon wrote:
> 
>
> Then you won't have available to you any tools relevant to
> the difficult task of converting the data in a tape written by
> one of the old EBCDIC based IBM OSs into a form suitable for
> use on a modern OS.
>
> This is not just a matter of converting the character code,
> although that can be hard enough, as there were many different
> EBDCIC code pages. You have also to cope with the fact the
> the old IBM OSs used structured files. Not every byte in such
> a file necessarily represents a character. Some byte sequences
> may be block descriptors or record descriptors. These were not
> encoded in the character code, but were binary values. If you
> translate these bytes from one character code to another, you
> will render them incomprehensible.
>
> Since these file formats were going out of fashion at the same
> time as the Web was coming into fashion, you probably won't
> find much information about this topic on the Web.
>

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If the information is important to you, hire someone to help you. If
you do it just for fun, install Linux and learn a real OS.

As a small hint, when you have installed Linux, try "man iconv" and
you will se how to use the tool iconv.


Regards, Victor



"dafon" <dafon@sdafon.net> wrote in message news:<l-OdnVQ5J5ohqFLdRVn-vw@comcast.com>...[vbc
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> render them incomprehensible.
>
> Even if I save it as a new file?
>
>
>
> "Charles Jardine" <cj10@cam.ac.uk> wrote in message
> news:can94g$8id$1@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk... 

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