Aled Morris wrote:
>
> On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Warner Losh wrote:
>
> >Even the name (dd) comes from IBM's control language (JSYS?).
>
> I don't disagree, but someone once told me the name came from what
> it does "Convert and Copy a file" - see dd(1) - but "cc" was already
> taken...
dd == devic
At 2:01 PM + 2/12/01, Aled Morris wrote:
>On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Warner Losh wrote:
>
>>Even the name (dd) comes from IBM's control language (JSYS?).
>
>I don't disagree, but someone once told me the name came from
>what it does "Convert and Copy a file" - see dd(1) - but "cc"
>was already taken
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 02:01:55PM +, Aled Morris wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Warner Losh wrote:
>
> >Even the name (dd) comes from IBM's control language (JSYS?).
>
> I don't disagree, but someone once told me the name came from what
> it does "Convert and Copy a file" - see dd(1) - but "
On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Warner Losh wrote:
>Even the name (dd) comes from IBM's control language (JSYS?).
I don't disagree, but someone once told me the name came from what
it does "Convert and Copy a file" - see dd(1) - but "cc" was already
taken...
Aled
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> At 1:33 PM -0800 1/29/01, Josef Grosch wrote:
> >Does anybody know of an EBCDIC to ASCII converter? I thought
> >that at one time FreeBSD had one of these.
>
> Note there are multiple ideas of what it means to be EBCDIC.
> Alphanumerics stay the same between them, of course, but a
> few of the
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 12:34:47AM -0500, Louis A. Mamakos wrote:
> > > Warner Losh writes:
> >
> > > Even the name (dd) comes from IBM's control language (JSYS?).
> >
> > Huh! I never realized that.
> > //GO.SYSIN DD *
> > ...
> > //
> > Where are my punch cards? :-)
>
> man 6 bcd
Come
> > Warner Losh writes:
>
> > Even the name (dd) comes from IBM's control language (JSYS?).
>
> Huh! I never realized that.
> //GO.SYSIN DD *
> ...
> //
> Where are my punch cards? :-)
man 6 bcd
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> Warner Losh writes:
> Even the name (dd) comes from IBM's control language (JSYS?).
Huh! I never realized that.
//GO.SYSIN DD *
...
//
Where are my punch cards? :-)
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In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Peter Pentchev writes:
: Actually, dd(1) has four different EBCDIC encodings and two
: different ASCII encodings. People might want to remember
: that different BSD utilities might indeed have their roots
: in EBCDIC times :)
Even the name (dd) comes from IBM's con
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 02:37:43PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
[snip good explanation why EBCDIC encoding diffs matter]
>
> Now, it's perfectly reasonable to try 'dd's conversion, and
> see if that works for you. But if it doesn't, then rummage
> around thru the ports collection, and see if
At 8:42 AM -0800 1/31/01, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> > At 1:33 PM -0800 1/29/01, Josef Grosch wrote:
>> >Does anybody know of an EBCDIC to ASCII converter? I thought
>> >that at one time FreeBSD had one of these.
>>
>> Note there are multiple ideas of what it means to be EBCDIC.
>> Alphanumerics st
Try dd:
dd if=infile of=outfile conf=ascii
On 31-Jan-2001 Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> At 1:33 PM -0800 1/29/01, Josef Grosch wrote:
>>Does anybody know of an EBCDIC to ASCII converter? I thought
>>that at one time FreeBSD had one of these.
>
> Note there are multiple ideas of what it means to be
> "Luigi" == Luigi Rizzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Luigi> isn't so for ASCII chars >128 as well ?
There are no ASCII characters > 128.
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> At 1:33 PM -0800 1/29/01, Josef Grosch wrote:
> >Does anybody know of an EBCDIC to ASCII converter? I thought
> >that at one time FreeBSD had one of these.
>
> Note there are multiple ideas of what it means to be EBCDIC.
> Alphanumerics stay the same between them, of course, but a
> few of the
At 1:33 PM -0800 1/29/01, Josef Grosch wrote:
>Does anybody know of an EBCDIC to ASCII converter? I thought
>that at one time FreeBSD had one of these.
Note there are multiple ideas of what it means to be EBCDIC.
Alphanumerics stay the same between them, of course, but a
few of the special charac
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 10:35:20PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Josef Grosch writes:
> >
> >Does anybody know of an EBCDIC to ASCII converter? I thought that at one
> >time FreeBSD had one of these.
>
> man 1 dd
Doh! Time to re-read the man pages. Thanks
Jos
Josef Grosch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>
> Does anybody know of an EBCDIC to ASCII converter? I thought that at one
> time FreeBSD had one of these.
>
>
> Josef
Check out the `dd' command.. particularly the `conv' suboption:
conv= value[, value ...]
Where value is one
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>Does anybody know of an EBCDIC to ASCII converter? I thought that at one
>time FreeBSD had one of these.
This is a standard dd(1) feature. More specifically, you want to use the
conv=ascii option.
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In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Josef Grosch writes:
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>Does anybody know of an EBCDIC to ASCII converter? I thought that at one
>time FreeBSD had one of these.
man 1 dd
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Does anybody know of an EBCDIC to ASCII converter? I thought that at one
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