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From: keld@login.dkuug.dk (Keld J|rn Simonsen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: EBCDIC to ASCII conversion under ULTRIX
Message-ID: <keld.652127462@dkuugin>
Date: 31 Aug 90 18:31:02 GMT
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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