EBCDIC

Fri Oct 27 09:08:02 CDT 2006

Ethan Dicks wrote:

> On 10/27/06, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
>
>> On 27 Oct 2006 at 13:22, Ethan Dicks wrote:
>>
>> > * - for the uninitiated, the space char is the only char in common
>> > with ASCII, 0x20, and the numbers are 0xF0-0xF9 vs 0x30-0x39 for
>> > ASCII.
>>
>> Uh, Ethan?  Space in EBCDIC is 0x40.
>
> Whoops... I remember less than I thought I did.

The thing to remember was that Space was 0x40 in EBCDIC (hex) and 040 in 
ASCII (octal).

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