On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Tony Duell wrote:
Also before I
write it (I have some paper documentation to work from
describing the Atlas Autocode character set, which is from the
Flexowriter printers that were attached to it) does anyone already have
any code to convert from the flexowriter char set to ascii in any form?
tr(1) ?
tr would would, though lumberingly. A better solution would be to write
a program that does a simple array-based look-up. Assuming the
Flex-o-writer uses EBCIDC, here's a chart that might be handy:
http://www.natural-innovations.com/computing/asciiebcdic.html
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