chongo@nsc.uucp (Curt Noll) (09/22/83)
im looking for a book which gives the full ascii standard, and the intended use of the control characters. any ideas? chongo /\../\
brucec@tekecs.UUCP (Bruce Cohen) (09/26/83)
If the standards themselves (ANSI X3.4-1977, "Code for Information Interchange," ANSI X3.41-1974, "Code Extension Techniques for Use with the 7-Bit Coded Character Set of ASCII," and ANSI X3.64-1979, "Additional Controls for Use with ASCII") won't do the job, try "Coded Character Sets: History and Development" by Charles MacKenzie, Addison-Wesley. I haven't read it myself, but it's in the Systems Programming Series, which is generally worthwhile. BTW, the standards are available from ANSI: American National Standards Institute, Inc. 1430 Broadway, New York, NY 10018 Bruce Cohen UUCP: ...!teklabs!tekecs!brucec CSNET: tekecs!brucec@tektronix ARPA: tekecs!brucec.tektronix@rand-relay
minow@decvax.UUCP (Martin Minow) (09/27/83)
John McNamara's "Introduction to Data Communications" published by Digital Press is the standard reference -- if you don't want to plow through Ansi and ISO standard documentation. Control character usage is -- unfortunately -- less standardized than one might hope. There are some internal Dec reference standards that run to several hundred pages (for Escape sequence standardization) Martin Minow decvax!minow