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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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