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From: pdb@sei.cmu.edu (Patrick Barron)
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Subject: Re: ebcdic
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Date: Mon, 1-Jun-87 13:58:28 EDT
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In article <8706011216.AA12964@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> aad#@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Anthony A. Datri) writes:
>Such a translator should be very simple to write.  Now,
>if they were running unix, all they'd have to do is come
>up with the appropriate tr command line.  Dig up a
>conversion table and write a C program that consists 
>basically of a couple fopens and a switch


Ahh, much easier than that.  All you need to do is:

   dd if=<input file> of=<output file> conv=ebcdic  (converts ASCII to EBCDIC)

                    "                  conv=ascii   (converts EBCDIC to ASCII)

--Pat.