peters@cc.msstate.edu (Frank W. Peters) (07/28/89)
Hello,
We have occasion here to deal with binary files that contain EBCDIC rather
than ASCII data in their text portions. There are several editors and viewers
out there that will display the ASCII portions of binary files. Does anybody
know of any similar editors for UNIX that would display EBCDIC in a similar way?
Thanks
--Frank
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"What if I wanna worry? What if I *like* being unhappy??"jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) (07/28/89)
You can run the binary through dd with the option "conv=ascii" to get it to convert all of the text in the file from EBCDIC to ASCII. I don't know what it will do with the binary portions of the file, but I also don't know if that's important (if the machine you're doing this on can't read the EBCDIC and deal with it, it probably can't run the program either, so it probably doesn't matter :-). Just typing "dd conv=ascii infile outfile" will convert the EBCDIC text in infile to ASCII text in outfile. Jonathan Kamens USnail: MIT Project Athena 432 S. Rose Blvd. jik@Athena.MIT.EDU Akron, OH 44320 Office: 617-253-4261 Home: 216-869-6432
hwt@bnr-public.uucp (Henry Troup) (07/29/89)
In article <20394@adm.BRL.MIL> peters@cc.msstate.edu (Frank W. Peters) writes: >Hello, > > We have occasion here to deal with binary files that contain EBCDIC rather >than ASCII data in their text portions. There are several editors and viewers >out there that will display the ASCII portions of binary files. Does anybody >know of any similar editors for UNIX that would display EBCDIC in a similar way? I have used a pipeline like: dd if=name conf=ascii | xd | more but I too would be interested in a decent tool to view (even change) EBCDIC files. utgpu!bnr-vpa!bnr-fos!hwt%bnr-public | BNR is not | All that evil requires hwt@bnr (BITNET/NETNORTH) | responsible for | is that good men do (613) 765-2337 (Voice) | my opinions | nothing.