Subj : Re: Really **wonderful** website for C interview questions!!!!!
To   : comp.programming
From : John W. Krahn
Date : Wed Jul 06 2005 02:41 pm

Robert Maas, see http://tinyurl.com/uh3t wrote:
> 
> Now for a real tough question on an exam (open book, open InterNet):
> Write a pair of functions (in whatever programming languge is being
> tested) to convert between ASCII and EBCDIC.
> 
> Good student would search Google, find this:
>   http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q216399/
> and use that as guidance in writing the sofware.
> 
> Hacker would write code to connect to that Web site and download the
> table and parse it to yield the local machine table to be used, in case
> there was a mistake in that table later corrected, the program would
> automatically import the fix next time it's run.

A hacker would have Perl installed and read the perlebcdic man page.  ;-)


John
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use Perl;
program
fulfillment

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