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Sender: Scott Klement <klemscot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>



On Fri, 18 May 2001, Justin Kiteley wrote:

> Steve,

My name is Scott... :)

> > > 3)  I can't think of a scenario where ASCII would ever be used.  Unless
> > >       conversion to an IFS ASCII object from an EBCDIC object in the
> > >       QSYS.LIB structure is needed.  I guess the conversion should be
> > >       available, but up to the programmer to decide and be defaulted to
> > >       BINARY mode.
> >
> > Huh?   Aren't you the one who is complaining that your document isn't
> > being converted to ASCII?   Why are you now saying that you can't think
> > of a scenario where a file should be converted to ASCII?!
> 
> I'm trying to help with your question # 3!
> 
> > > >     3)  What if I'm talking to another AS/400 (or other EBCDIC
> machine)?
> > > >          Could I safely assume that binary mode would be used in that
> > > >          scenario?
> 
> Which is referring to EBCDIC to EBCDIC machines, not EBCDIC to PC.
> 
> 
> Justin
> 

But, then again, we don't actually know that the machine we're connecting
to is EBCDIC...   I think we can assume, though, that if we're connecting
to an EBCDIC machine, that binary mode will be used...



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