On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 02:56:38PM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > On Tuesday, Aug 5, 2003, at 17:17 US/Eastern, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > >This one probably doesn't count, any more than putting something in a > >tarball - it's a transport encoding change, with no appreciable effect > >on the content > > EBCDIC is not a subset of ASCII, I'm pretty sure. Any translation is > going to be lossy. IIRC, aside from the control codes (which are virtually unused anyway, and thusly not an issue) it is. I vaguely recall EBCDIC had a lot of empty space. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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