RE: EBCDIC wording

Subject: RE: EBCDIC wording
From: "John Fleming" <johnf -at- ecn -dot- ab -dot- ca>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 03:12:13 -0600

> Subject: EBCDIC wording
> From: Amanda Nance <Amanda -dot- Nance -at- VITALPS -dot- COM>
> Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 08:17:01 -0700
> X-Message-Number: 33

> I don't know anything about EDCDIC, so I want to make sure that the
wording
> is accurate. (It comes from some old documentation.)

> This sentence is part of the introduction to a section of the
document; part
> of the section talks about encoding.
> "This section will specify the type of encoding scheme to use for
> transmission files ... "

> later...
> "Transmission files must be created using the Extended Binary Coded
Decimal
> Interchange Code (EBCDIC) encoding scheme."

Last time I came across EBCDIC was in a class on microprocessor
architecture back in engineering school.

If memory serves me right, EBCDIC was originally developed by IBM for
use on some of their mainframes.

What it is is a method for encoding information in a binary format for
use on a computer. In the modern PC world, the comparable schemes are
the ASCII and ANSI character sets.

So, if your second sentence were written for ASCII files instead, it
would read -

"Transmission files must be created using the American
Standard
Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) encoding scheme."

That is, they had better be ASCII files.

What your second sentence is saying is that the transmission files had
better be EBCDIC files.

Hope this helps.

--

John Fleming
Technical Writer
Edmonton, Alberta
email: johnf -at- ecn -dot- ab -dot- ca



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