EBCDIC to ASCII conversion under ULTRIX

Doug Gwyn gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL
Thu Aug 30 07:40:57 AEST 1990


In article <90240.091342HASKINS at MAINE.BITNET> HASKINS at 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 ?

"dd" does this; RTFM.
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.



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