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Re: dd utility in Linux
From: |
Philip Rowlands |
Subject: |
Re: dd utility in Linux |
Date: |
Mon, 23 Jan 2006 00:26:16 +0000 (GMT) |
On Sun, 22 Jan 2006, Sergio Nudelman wrote:
The translation from EBCDIC to ASCII depends on the code page. How this
is handled by dd?
Although I don't know much about EBCDIC handling and conversion, I think
this page answers your question:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/dd.html#tagtcjh_12
It seems there is a single, fixed mapping between the two character
sets. If you need more flexibility, perhaps the "iconv" utility (not a
GNU coreutil) would be more appropriate.
Cheers,
Phil