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Re: Ebcdic rule


From: Russ Allbery
Subject: Re: Ebcdic rule
Date: 02 Oct 2001 15:27:06 -0700
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Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:

> Wow.  Are you actually using such mainframes to run GNU applications?  I
> thought that, these days, most of those people were running in ASCII (or
> Latin-1 or UTF-8) mode, even on mainframes.

There's at least an active community of people who ported Perl to EBCDIC
and continue to maintain it, apparently because they're using it
regularly.

-- 
Russ Allbery (address@hidden)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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