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From: hwt@bnr-public.uucp (Henry Troup)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: EBCDIC Editor/viewer for unix.
Message-ID: <816@bnr-fos.UUCP>
Date: 28 Jul 89 18:39:31 GMT
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Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
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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.
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