On Sat, 26 May 2007 10:49:05 -0400, Gerhard Postpischil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> of it. I then download in ASCII and I can open it with notepad. If I ftp it >> back > >That's great if it works for you, but under most conditions the >ASCII-EBCDIC translation is lossy, and fails to preserve all >characters. Unless the text needs to be processed on the PC >side, downloading in BINary mode is preferred, and lossless. > The OEMVS311 ISO8859-1 <-> IBM-1047 (almost) conversion is bijective. There remain potential problems with in-band vs. out-of-band line separators, and ASCII's acceptance of TAB characters which EBCDIC considers alien. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
