On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Tony Duell wrote:
> > Also before I write it (I have some paper documentation to work from
> > describing the Atlas Autocode character set, which is from the
> > Flexowriter printers that were attached to it) does anyone already have
> > any code to convert from the flexowriter char set to ascii in any form?
>
> tr(1) ?
tr would would, though lumberingly. A better solution would be to write
a program that does a simple array-based look-up. Assuming the
Flex-o-writer uses EBCIDC, here's a chart that might be handy:
http://www.natural-innovations.com/computing/asciiebcdic.html
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