[NBLUG/talk] Tonight I program in EBDIC

[Scrappy Laptop]

Sheesh, that was the scariest thing I've seen tonight!

EBCDIC made my life a living heck from 2000- 2005.  Our top customers were the top 10 banks, the other half revenue-wise were wintel.  Development was done on the PC & then compiled on either platfom.  Data for troubleshooting could be in either character set.  Sometimes both, as it *could* move through 3-4 systems before it got to us.  Nothing made me happier than seeing "0D 0A" at even increments in a file...

Why on earth are you doing this to yourself?  ;)



--- On Thu, 10/29/09, gandalf at sonic.net <gandalf at sonic.net> wrote:

> From: gandalf at sonic.net <gandalf at sonic.net>
> Subject: [NBLUG/talk] Tonight I program in EBDIC
> To: "north bay Linux" <talk at nblug.org>
> Date: Thursday, October 29, 2009, 8:37 PM
> Well not that you can really program
> in a character coding, but anyway, you get the point. Fun
> stuff. Really old IBM interfaces. 
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