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Posted by Saltation, 15:25, 1st July 2004:
 
ebcdicX - A Lightening fast dedicated EBCDIC/ASCII conversion program
This program is THE fastest conversion program we've ever come across

www.stringx.com/sxEbcdicX.htm

at last, all those wasted hours spent waiting on those constant ascii/ebcdic conversions will be no more!
Posted by Foghorn Leghorn, 15:27, 1st July 2004:
 
yeah...thanks.
Posted by Saltation, 15:30, 1st July 2004:
 
just think, foggy, if you'd had this program, you'd have had SO much more time you could have typed MUCH MUCH MORE in reply!!!!!11111oneonesamsamloveme
Posted by Brock, 16:13, 1st July 2004:
 
/me begrudgingly finds the extension on the '111!!!' theme rather amusing...
Posted by cal, 17:54, 1st July 2004:
 
it is written mainly in assembler for speed.


The program can be run from Windows 98 or above


anyone spot the deliberate mistake? what the fuck would it need 98 components for? this program takes about 4 lines of c and a constant table.
Posted by arsepuppy, 17:55, 1st July 2004:
 
I was about to say that.
Posted by Sul, 17:57, 1st July 2004:
 
Yeah, haha, fucking idiots.
Posted by Brock, 18:08, 1st July 2004:
 
Yeah! Hahaha!

/joins in through peer pressure not to admit he has no fucking clue what you lot are on about.
Posted by arsepuppy, 18:16, 1st July 2004:
 
that's the idea, cueball.
Posted by Alfie, 18:19, 1st July 2004:
 
goodness that was a double whoosh over Brock's head there.
Posted by Brock, 18:22, 1st July 2004:
 
Oh. Maybe I was giving Sul and AP too much credit. Someone told me that they had a brain.

My mistake.

You pair of stupid monkey fuckwits.
Posted by Brock, 18:22, 1st July 2004:
 
"Someone told me that they had a brain"

Between them, I hasten to add.
Posted by Alfie, 18:28, 1st July 2004:
 
I stopped giving them credit long ago. You should see the tab I have behind the bar, it's like a phone book (but stained with Sul's tears and with all the ladies names crossed out with a biro.)
Posted by Brock, 18:31, 1st July 2004:
 
Is it a chinese phone book?

I reckon Vic'll be in there, what with all the chins and all...
Posted by jeffld, 20:59, 1st July 2004:
 
I do some mainframe work. When I want to convert from EBCDIC to ASCII I just let the mainframe FTP client do that part as long as the entire record is only EBCDIC and doesn't contain any packed decimal crap.

cal: another reason for me to hate unicode.
Posted by cal, 21:59, 1st July 2004:
 
i'm not sure that's a reason to hate unicode - maybe i'm missing something here. what would you convert to/from unicode and why?
Posted by Brock, 22:04, 1st July 2004:
 
Because horses are dangerous with that great pointy thing sticking out of their noses, obviously!

oh. Wait.
Posted by Saltation, 23:45, 1st July 2004:
 
unicode's a myth
Posted by Saltation, 23:49, 1st July 2004:
 
jeffld: i'm frankly gobsmacked anyone here ever USED ebcdic, let alone is STILL using it

/doffs hat