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Was the file in ASCII when it should have been in EBCDIC?
by shemnon42 4y ago
Was the file in ASCII when it should have been in EBCDIC?
- defrost 4y agoThat's just silly. Obviously it was due to details being entered using the now standard International foot when the software expected the now obsolete US survey foot [1] .. the discrepency across a transcontinental flight was large enough for a pilot to fall through. [1] https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2023/01/new-years-eve-2023-marked-retirement-us-survey-foot https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2023/01/new-years-eve-...
- soneil 4y agoMy money would have been on a byte-order mark