On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 04:32:10PM -0500, Paul Hamm wrote: > I am familiar with EBCDIC and ASCII conversion with dd. Currently I need to > convert a mainframe tape in EBCDIC with packed decimal format into ASCII. > dd does not handle packed decimal format. Does anyone know of a utilitie > that does?
Doing some google searches is coming up with slim pickings... There are some commercial packages and services but not much for free stuff. Look at uakebcpd at http://www.arsc.edu/~kcarlson/software/ Subroutines to help you write your own: http://www.arsc.edu/~kcarlson/software/man/libcci.html The general discusssions surrounding this suggest that you're better off converting the data before the tape gets written, or writing a custom tool after you get the data. -- Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA mailto:ewilts@;ewilts.org Member #1, Red Hat Community Ambassador Program
