28 Nov
2000
28 Nov
'00
5:36 p.m.
Don't let me scare anyone, but this question is
actually for _work_.
Good. My outside consulting rate is $200/Hr.
:-) The mainframe guys asked me if I knew of any
utilities for
translating from EBCDIC to ASCII on a DOS or Windows PC, as they have
a user who keeps getting big (12MB) data dumps from another company in
EBCDIC, and they're getting tired up uploading it to the mainframe and
back down just to get the EBCDIC->ASCII translation done. Any
suggestions? Web searching has turned up very little of interest.
Well, there appear to be lots of such utilities listed on the web,
surely one of them would get the job done. There are editors that
can also translate EBCDIC, and several DOS based text translators.
For example, at: http://www.bookcase.com/library/software/msdos.util.text.html
There are several DOS programs that might do the trick:
CTRANS, EBC2ASC, EBCDIC, TOADEBC.
-Lawrence LeMay