11. The format originates from the MVS environment, so it typically uses the EBCDIC based codepages. 12. Used in humorously overblown expressions of hostility . Eat flaming death, EBCDIC users ! 13. EBCDIC , for example, provides an NL character code in addition to the CR and LF codes.14. Trigraphs might also be used for some EBCDIC code pages that lack characters such as { and }. 15. :: : : : Character-based art has a much longer pedigree than EBCDIC or computers. 16. As to putting letters first or numbers, EBCDIC has lower case, upper case and then numbers. 17. CIPDx can handle data in a variety of formats including XML, JSON, ASCII, and EBCDIC . 18. This encoding form is rarely used, even on the EBCDIC -based mainframes for which it was designed. 19. The CMS IMPORT and EXPORT commands allowed extraction of files from these virtual drives as well as ASCII / EBCDIC conversion. 20. The host computer had to translate the 2741 code into the host s internal code ( usually ASCII or EBCDIC ).