keld@login.dkuug.dk (Keld J|rn Simonsen) (09/01/90)
Archive-name: ebcdic-conversion/31-Aug-90 Original-posting-by: keld@login.dkuug.dk (Keld J|rn Simonsen) Original-subject: Re: EBCDIC to ASCII conversion under ULTRIX Archive-site: dkuug.dk [129.142.96.41] Archive-directory: /pub Reposted-by: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) 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 ? >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. I have made a program to do conversion between about 60 character sets including 20 versions of EBCDIC. You can pick it up at dkuug.dk with anon ftp, or by mailing archive@dkuug.dk with subject: files pub and on a line on itself: Names: ch.shar enjoy Keld Simonsen