RE: dd utility in Linux

[Sergio Nudelman]

Thanks for your help.
Sergio

-----Original Message-----
From: Philip Rowlands [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2006 2:26 AM
To: Sergio Nudelman
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: dd utility in Linux

On Sun, 22 Jan 2006, Sergio Nudelman wrote:

> The translation from EBCDIC to ASCII depends on the code page. How
this
> is handled by dd?

Although I don't know much about EBCDIC handling and conversion, I think

this page answers your question:

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/dd.html#tagtcjh_
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It seems there is a single, fixed mapping between the two character 
sets. If you need more flexibility, perhaps the "iconv" utility (not a 
GNU coreutil) would be more appropriate.


Cheers,
Phil

 
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