On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, 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? >
As I recall, IBM did invent a packed-decimal format for ASCII (think S/360) but this is probably not what you want. I don't know of anything for Linux that can handle any packed-decimal format. Why not convert to EBCDIC character format on the mainframe; after that it's fairly trivial.
