Re: lynx-dev Re: http://www.slcc.edu/lynx/release2-8-2/features.html

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In a recent note, T.E.Dickey said:

> Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 19:03:18 -0400 (EDT)
> 
> > >     * to OS/390, which uses EBCDIC 
> > Hi. How does EBCDIC handle URLs? I mean, I couldn't find a "/" character in 
> > EBCDIC. Where's the virgule? (sounds like Clara Peller...) 
> 
It's hard to answer this without descending into superciliousness.  I won't
resist the temptation.

o The virgule is near the lower right corner of the keyboard, below
  the semicolon and the apostrophe.

o If you nurture the delusion that EBCDIC has no virgule, you have very
  little exposure to EBCDIC; surely you've never coded a line of JCL.
  Are you perhaps just trying to start a rumor?  ("I read in lynx-dev
  that EBCDIC has no virgule!")

> >  http://www.natural-innovations.com/boo/asciiebcdic.html 

Should I surmise from your handle "boo" in the URL that this is your
own page?  It's woefully incomplete.  For a slightly better one, see:

    
http://www.s390.ibm.com/bookmgr-cgi/bookmgr.cmd/BOOKS/ASMR1001/D%2e0?SHELF=EZ239707

For much more, see:

    ftp://ftp.ulg.ac.be/pub/docs/iso8859/iso8859.networking.txt

-- gil