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From: philip@hubcap.clemson.edu (Philip L Harshman)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Postscript translator for IBM MVS mainframe?
Keywords: No snide remarks, please!
Message-ID: <1991Apr2.160715.4460@hubcap.clemson.edu>
Date: 2 Apr 91 16:07:15 GMT
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das@voodoo.boeing.com (Deb Schwartz) writes:
>We are looking for a program that will run under MVS on an IBM mainframe,
>translate straight EBCDIC text into Postscript, and write it to a file in ASCII.

I'm sure this is more complicated (and expensive) than you want, but DCF (IBM's
version of SCRIPT) can output a PostScript file in either ASCII or EBCDIC.
You could therefore feed it your EBCDIC text (giving it appropriate formatting
commands) and get ASCII PostScript out.  Certainly a workable solution if you
already have DCF, but I certainly wouldn't want to install and pay for it
just for this application.

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