On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 4:53 PM, Edward Gould <[email protected]> wrote: >>> —————————SNIP------------------------- >>> IBM blundered with the 'scp' command on z/OS and made it automatically and >>> uncontrollably convert text. >>> >>> scp is universally outside z/OS a binary transfer protocol which knows >>> nothing whatsoever of the content it transfers. >>> >>> z/OS users are forced onto the inferior sftp which in the Unix world is >>> merely an scp-knockoff nod to decades of >>> scripting ftp. >>> >> Have I ever mentioned that I hate EBCDIC!? >> http://www.bobbemer.com/P-BIT.HTM <http://www.bobbemer.com/P-BIT.HTM> > > which came first the chicken or the egg? >> >> IBM blundered by making UNIX System Services based on EBCDIC rather than >> ASCII. >> It might yet be made impartially bimodal but until then customers will >> suffer. >> >> On occasion, I've resorted to such as: >> ssh user$zOS "cd somewhere && pax -w . | iconv -f ISO8859-1 -t >> IBM-1047" | pax -rv >> >> And I think once again of Samuel Johnson's politically inorrect dog. >> >> -- gil
The egg has the mutation (or hybridization) that grows the first chicken. IBM came out with the 80 column card. BCD was the 6 bit representation of the card punches. EBCDIC was the 8 bit extension to BCD for the IBM 360. -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
