bug#17422: dd giving different results between UNIX and LINUX

[Bernhard Voelker]

On 05/07/2014 03:43 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Thanks for reporting that bug.  Who would have thought that after all 
> these years, GNU 'dd' would still be mishandling EBCDIC conversion?  The 
> GNU dd implementation of conv=ascii is clearly incorrect.  I installed 
> the attached patch.

ooh, thanks!

There is a testing artifact left in the new test:

  > cp ./in ./out ./exp /tmp

I corrected this besides other minor nits in the attached patch.
Pushing later.

Have a nice day,
Berny

0001-tests-improve-new-ascii-test-of-dd.patch
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