HASKINS@MAINE.BITNET (Robert D. Haskins) (08/28/90)
Does anyone know how to convert a file that is in EBCDIC format to ASCII format? Is there a command/program to do this under UNIX/ULTRIX ? If not, does anybody know of a public domain program to do the conversion? Thanks, !bob
sandee@sun16 (Daan Sandee) (08/29/90)
In article <90240.091342HASKINS@MAINE.BITNET> HASKINS@MAINE.BITNET (Robert D. Haskins) writes: >Does anyone know how to convert a file that is in EBCDIC format to ASCII >format? Is there a command/program to do this under UNIX/ULTRIX ? If not, >does anybody know of a public domain program to do the conversion? RTFM for cryssake. dd conv=ascii <infile >outfile On Ultrix-32 V3.1B. Daan Sandee sandee@sun16.scri.fsu.edu Supercomputer Computations Research Institute Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-4052 (904) 644-7045
omerzu@quando.quantum.de (Thomas Omerzu) (08/29/90)
In article <90240.091342HASKINS@MAINE.BITNET> HASKINS@MAINE.BITNET (Robert D. Haskins) writes: >Does anyone know how to convert a file that is in EBCDIC format to ASCII >format? Is there a command/program to do this under UNIX/ULTRIX ? If not, >does anybody know of a public domain program to do the conversion? Well, maybe you can use the 'dd'-command. The option conv=ascii converts EBCDIC to ASCII wereas conv=ebcdic converts ASCII to EBCDIC Bye, Thomas. -- *-----------------------------------------------------------------------------* Thomas Omerzu UUCP: ...!unido!quando!omerzu / omerzu@quando.uucp Quantum GmbH, Bitnet: UNIDO!quando!omerzu / omerzu%quando@UNIDO(.bitnet) Dortmund, Germany Internet: omerzu@quando.quantum.de
felps@convex.com (Robert Felps) (08/29/90)
HASKINS@MAINE.BITNET (Robert D. Haskins) writes: >Does anyone know how to convert a file that is in EBCDIC format to ASCII >format? Is there a command/program to do this under UNIX/ULTRIX ? If not, >does anybody know of a public domain program to do the conversion? > >Thanks, >!bob Does ULTRIX support dd? For information on dd: man dd A possible command : dd if=infile of=outfile conv=ascii Hope ULTRIX has dd! Robert -- Robert Felps Tech. Assistant Ctr Convex Computer Corp OS System Specialist 3000 Waterview Parkway felps@convex.com Richardson, Tx. 75083 1(800) 952-0379
chris@mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek) (08/29/90)
>In article <90240.091342HASKINS@MAINE.BITNET> HASKINS@MAINE.BITNET (Robert D. Haskins) asks for EBCDIC => ASCII conversion. In article <1694@quando.quantum.de> omerzu@quando.quantum.de (Thomas Omerzu) suggests using `dd': > conv=ascii converts EBCDIC to ASCII Unfortunately, while there is only one ASCII (or two if you count the old non-standard version with arrows where [\]_ appear in modern ASCII), there are very many different (and incompatible) EBCDICs. Take any two pieces of IBM hardware that support more than the `basic' EBCDIC set (upper & lower case, digits, and a few special symbols) and they will not use the same table. Square brackets on one will turn into hats on another.% Backslashes will vanish. Some IBM equipment can even display characters it cannot generate! (I know of no instances of the reverse, which is not to say that they do not exist.) So, the first problem with EBCDIC to anything conversion is to figure out exactly which EBCDIC is being used. . . . ----- % Actually, I am not sure what usually maps to what, but the characters [] {} \ and ^ are the biggest trouble spots. -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 405 2750) Domain: chris@cs.umd.edu Path: uunet!mimsy!chris
art@pilikia.pegasus.com (Art Neilson) (08/30/90)
In article <90240.091342HASKINS@MAINE.BITNET> HASKINS@MAINE.BITNET (Robert D. Haskins) writes: >Does anyone know how to convert a file that is in EBCDIC format to ASCII >format? Is there a command/program to do this under UNIX/ULTRIX ? If not, >does anybody know of a public domain program to do the conversion? This is really easy to write in C, just declare a static array of 256 unsigned chars and initialize it with the numeric values of the ASCII characters. Make sure the array position corresponds to the EBCDIC value as you will use the EBCDIC value as the indice into the array, like so: /* etoa.c */ #include <stdio.h> typedef unsigned char byte; static byte ascii[256] = { initializers, go, here, }; main() { int c; while ((c = getchar()) != EOF) putchar(ascii[c]); } I can mail you both the ASCII and EBCDIC array declarations if you need them. -- Arthur W. Neilson III | ARPA: art@pilikia.pegasus.com Bank of Hawaii Tech Support | UUCP: uunet!ucsd!nosc!pegasus!pilikia!art
rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) (08/30/90)
In article <1990Aug29.184831.1216@pilikia.pegasus.com> art@pilikia.pegasus.com (Art Neilson) writes: >In article <90240.091342HASKINS@MAINE.BITNET> HASKINS@MAINE.BITNET (Robert D. Haskins) writes: >>Does anyone know how to convert a file that is in EBCDIC format to ASCII >>format? Is there a command/program to do this under UNIX/ULTRIX ? If not, >>does anybody know of a public domain program to do the conversion? > >This is really easy to write in C, just declare a static array of 256 >unsigned chars and initialize it with the numeric values of the ASCII >characters. Make sure the array position corresponds to the EBCDIC value >as you will use the EBCDIC value as the indice into the array, like so: > Before implementing this program, you might check to see if the options available on the 'dd' command are suitable for the intented purposes. -- =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science <rickert@cs.niu.edu> Northern Illinois Univ. DeKalb, IL 60115. +1-815-753-6940
gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) (08/30/90)
In article <90240.091342HASKINS@MAINE.BITNET> HASKINS@MAINE.BITNET (Robert D. Haskins) writes: >Does anyone know how to convert a file that is in EBCDIC format to ASCII >format? Is there a command/program to do this under UNIX/ULTRIX ? "dd" does this; RTFM. Unfortunately, there are multiple notions of EBCDIC encoding and the one that "dd" implements may not be 100% what you want, although it should be quite close.
dave@ecrc.de (Dave Morton) (08/30/90)
In article <26264@mimsy.umd.edu>, chris@mimsy.umd.edu (Chris Torek) writes: |>>In article <90240.091342HASKINS@MAINE.BITNET> HASKINS@MAINE.BITNET |> (Robert D. Haskins) asks for EBCDIC => ASCII conversion. |> |>So, the first problem with EBCDIC to anything conversion is to figure out |>exactly which EBCDIC is being used. . . . |>----- |>% Actually, I am not sure what usually maps to what, but the characters [] |> {} \ and ^ are the biggest trouble spots. Yes indeed. It's even worse. I think they also have country specific EBCDIC codes. I ran into this problem years ago with a System 34 here in Germany. Dave Morton, European Computer Industry Research Centre Tel. + (49) 89-92699-139 Arabellastr 17, 8000 Munich 81. West Germany. Fax. + (49) 89-92699-170 dave@ecrc.de
guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) (09/02/90)
> Before implementing this program, you might check to see if the options >available on the 'dd' command are suitable for the intented purposes. Unfortunately, ssome of the other suggestions didn't bother suggesting doing this check first. From the SunOS 4.0.3 DD(1) (but they all work this way, and the manuals should all say this): cbs is used only if ascii, unblock, ebcdic, ibm, or block conversion is specified. In the first two cases, cbs char- acters are placed into the conversion buffer, any specified character mapping is done, trailing blanks trimmed and NEW- LINE added before sending the line to the output. In the latter three cases, characters are read into the conversion buffer, and blanks added to make up an output record of size cbs. so that the "ascii" and "ebcdic" and "ibm" options are for converting between ASCII lines (NL at the end, UNIX lines) and EBCDIC *card images*. This may or may not be what the original poster wanted....