NH> It just dawned on me (after reading Mr. McBrine's post) that if
NH> one were to use only decimal numerics and English alphas
NH> converting from ASCII to EBCIDIC or vice versa would be really
NH> quick (as in table driven, no decisions).

JB> yeah,  something like

JB>   *(char_pointeer++) = "0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"[digit]

That's interesting.  Would you please write a snippet in which you would 
use the above pointer to convert ASCII to EBCDIC, or vice versa?

What I had imagined doing was setting up a 16x16 matrix and then using 
the source character value as an offset into that table.

JB> would compile and work fine on both EBCDIC and ASCII/UTF systems.
JB> also it could possibly be extended for base64 encoding etc...

Are you talking about conversion to/from unicode here?

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