28 Nov
2000
28 Nov
'00
5:38 p.m.
Don't let me scare anyone, but this question is
actually for _work_.
:-) 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.
Bill Richman
bill_r(a)inetnebr.com
http://incolor.inetnebr.com
The MKS Toolkit (I've still got the older dos versions...) has the
Unix dd utility ported to DOS/Windows.
There may be public domain ports as well...
The Linux and BSD folks all have the source code in C available
if you've got a C coder willing to cobble them together on DOS.
Bill
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