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what is EBCDIC ?
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Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code (EBCDIC) is an 8-bit character encoding (code page) used on IBM mainframe operating systems such as z/OS, OS/390, VM and VSE, as well as IBM minicomputer operating systems such as OS/400 and i5/OS (see also Binary Coded Decimal). It is also employed on various non-IBM platforms such as Fujitsu-Siemens' BS2000/OSD, HP MPE/iX, and Unisys MCP. It descended from punched cards and the corresponding six bit binary-coded decimal code that most of IBM's computer peripherals of the late 1950s and early 1960s used.
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Most computers are digital and recognize only two discrete states: off and on. To represent  these states, computers use binary system, which is a number system that has just two unique digits 0 (for off) 1 (for on) called bits. A bits is the smallest unit of data a computer can process. Grouped together as a unit , 8 bits form a byte, which provides enough different combinations of 0s and 1s represent 256 individual characters. The combinations are defined by patterns , called coding schemes, such as ASCII, EBCDIC, and Unicode.
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It is the language the printer under stands to print the files
It has a series of Nops and PTX records..
PTX is Printer instruction that tells the printer what is the font to use, size of the character, color, spacing etc
while NOP is no operation for the printer but has data to be printed..
basically it is AFP..contains EBCDIC characters...
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dk123
Wednesday, March 19, 2008 6:27 AM
nice comment
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thingMaster
Tuesday, October 23, 2007 1:52 PM
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