23 Apr
2005
23 Apr
'05
5:28 p.m.
David Menendez
With regard to the last three points, byte I/O isn't just for binary files. It's equally useful for "8-bit text" I/O, i.e. the historical Unix (and ANSI C stdio) model, where and you just shuffle bytes around without paying attention to the encoding.
So, how does this work on an EBCDIC system where 0x0a is Start Manual Message and line feed is 0x25?
Unix doesn't use EBCDIC. Data in encodings not compatible with ASCII must be converted because most programs can do anything with them. -- __("< Marcin Kowalczyk \__/ qrczak@knm.org.pl ^^ http://qrnik.knm.org.pl/~qrczak/