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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting binary to ascii Post 302246595 by Annihilannic on Tuesday 14th of October 2008 03:02:37 AM
Old 10-14-2008
It's not guaranteed... it depends what kind of data it contains. If it contains ASCII strings interspersed with unprintable characters then strings will do the job. If it's encrypted or in a different encoding (EBCDIC) then more work will be required... the question is too open ended without more information, i.e. what type of main frame, what type of file it is, etc.
 

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DAT2GMT(1gmt)						       Generic Mapping Tools						     DAT2GMT(1gmt)

NAME
dat2gmt - Convert an ASCII file to a binary gmt file SYNOPSIS
dat2gmt gmtfile DESCRIPTION
dat2gmt reads an ASCII version of a gmt file (made by gmt2dat) from standard input and creates a binary gmt file. EXAMPLES
To create a gmt file from the ASCII file c2104_fixed.ascii, run dat2gmt c2104.gmt < c2104_fixed.ascii SEE ALSO
gmt2dat(1), GMT(1) REFERENCES
Wessel, P., and W. H. F. Smith, 2011, The Generic Mapping Tools (GMT) version 4.5.7 Technical Reference & Cookbook, SOEST/NOAA. Wessel, P., and W. H. F. Smith, 1998, New, Improved Version of Generic Mapping Tools Released, EOS Trans., AGU, 79(47), p. 579. Wessel, P., and W. H. F. Smith, 1995, New Version of the Generic Mapping Tools Released, EOS Trans., AGU, 76(33), p. 329. Wessel, P., and W. H. F. Smith, 1995, New Version of the Generic Mapping Tools Released, http://www.agu.org/eos_elec/95154e.html, Copyright 1995 by the American Geophysical Union. Wessel, P., and W. H. F. Smith, 1991, Free Software Helps Map and Display Data, EOS Trans., AGU, 72(41), p. 441. GMT 4.5.7 15 Jul 2011 DAT2GMT(1gmt)
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