das@voodoo.boeing.com (Deb Schwartz) (04/02/91)
Just in case this is a wheel that's already been invented.... We are looking for a program that will run under MVS on an IBM mainframe, translate straight EBCDIC text into Postscript, and write it to a file in ASCII. Anyone know if such a beast already exists? Thanks, Debbie Schwartz (206) 865-6558 (wk) Boeing Computer Services das@voodoo.boeing.com or uunet!bsctec!voodoo!das M/S 7K-20, P.O. Box 24346, Seattle, WA 98124-0346 *** Boeing only owns the programming part of my brain: the rest is all mine. ***
philip@hubcap.clemson.edu (Philip L Harshman) (04/03/91)
das@voodoo.boeing.com (Deb Schwartz) writes: >We are looking for a program that will run under MVS on an IBM mainframe, >translate straight EBCDIC text into Postscript, and write it to a file in ASCII. I'm sure this is more complicated (and expensive) than you want, but DCF (IBM's version of SCRIPT) can output a PostScript file in either ASCII or EBCDIC. You could therefore feed it your EBCDIC text (giving it appropriate formatting commands) and get ASCII PostScript out. Certainly a workable solution if you already have DCF, but I certainly wouldn't want to install and pay for it just for this application. -- Philip Harshman uucp: ... !gatech!hubcap!philip Employed by Clemson University inet: philip@hubcap.clemson.edu although they have no idea that bitnet: philip@clemson I'm doing this. (So don't tell!) phone: (803) 656-3697
marc@sequoia.cray.com (Marc Bouron) (04/03/91)
In article <1198@voodoo.UUCP>, das@voodoo.boeing.com (Deb Schwartz) writes: |> Just in case this is a wheel that's already been invented.... |> |> We are looking for a program that will run under MVS on an IBM mainframe, |> translate straight EBCDIC text into Postscript, and write it to a file in ASCII. |> Anyone know if such a beast already exists? If you have Script/VS and ISPF on MVS, you could construct a file-tailoring job which wraps an `asis' environment around your text. Script/VS can then process this and produce PostScript. Note, however, that Script's version of PostScript is rather peculiar: all the text remains in EBCDIC: they simply re-encode the vector which maps `bytes' to `characters'. This means you have ASCII-readable PostScript interspersed with unreadable eight-bit garbage. This might be fine as it stands, but you get into trouble of you want to use very-ASCII utilities: for example, I find that mail(1) on UNIX eats seven-bit data, and only deals with `records' of 255 bytes (IBM PS output is 260 bytes `wide' :-o ). Still, it is possible to use... Of course, there might be someone out there wanting to port Transcript to MVS!!! :-) But I doubt it, somehow... [M][a][r][c] ################################################################################ # # marc@sequoia.cray.com # . . # # Marc CR Bouron # M.Bouron@cray.co.uk (ARPA) # _|\ /|_ # # Cray Research (UK) Ltd. # M.Bouron@crayuk.uucp (DOMAIN) # (_|_V_|_) # # +44 344 485971 x2208 # M.Bouron@uk.co.cray (JANET) # | | # # # ...!ukc!crayuk!M.Bouron (UUCP) # # ################################################################################