ela@bdgltd.uucp (Ed Ackerman Programmer) (08/14/90)
I am trying to take a 9 track tape from an IBM mainframe and convert it to a straight ACSII file. The problem is that some (Most) of the fields are in packed decimal format ie. COMP-3. I can handle the text translation and I can handle the byte swaping (MSB-LSB) the problem is in unpacking the fields. DOes anyone have any advice on the best way to handle this?? All help welcome ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ed Ackerman | It is impossible to make anything bdgltd!ela@dsi.com or ...!dsinc!bdgltd!ela| foolproof beacause fools are #include <StdDisclaimer> | SO ingenious!