Re: base64 encoder/decoder for EBCDIC systems

couple of things wrong with this. First the translation
from E to A and back does not give the same result (depending
a bit on code pages), seconds, base64 was designed to
encode arbitrary binary data for which even the concept
of translating E to A doesn't make sense.

----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Waterbury <mark.s.waterbury@worldnet.att.net>
To: <mi400@midrange.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2002 5:56 PM
Subject: Re: [MI400] base64 encoder/decoder for EBCDIC systems


> Hi, Jim (et al):
>
> Maybe I am "missing something" here, but, it seems to me that
> you could simply write a "wrapper" to call QDCXLATE to
> translate from EBCDIC to ASCII, then invoke the Base64 code,
> then at the other end, convert from Base64 back to ASCII, then,
> (if necessary), invoke QDCXLATE to translate it back to EBCDIC
> again (if you are running on an AS/400 or iSeries or IBM mainframe
> at the other end, that needs EBCDIC).