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From: omerzu@quando.quantum.de (Thomas Omerzu)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: EBCDIC to ASCII conversion under ULTRIX
Summary: dd might work
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Date: 29 Aug 90 12:10:23 GMT
References: <90240.091342HASKINS@MAINE.BITNET>
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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.
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