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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat Unable to convert EBCDIC file to ASCII file Post 302796103 by RudiC on Friday 19th of April 2013 02:04:06 AM
Old 04-19-2013
When I read your thread title, the first thing jumping to my mind was dd. This failing, did you consider recode or iconv, both of which should be available on the linux platform?
 

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HEXEDITOR(1)						      General Commands Manual						      HEXEDITOR(1)

NAME
hexeditor - Full screen curses Hex editor SYNOPSIS
hexeditor [ -8abdfgqrv ] [ filename ] DESCRIPTION
Hexeditor is an editor to edit binary (or any) files or disks. The Display consists of the current offset from 0 (the first byte), the next sixteen bytes (aligned by bytes or 32-bit words), and its ASCII or EBCDIC text representation. OPTIONS
-h, --help Display help -8, --highbit Display 8-bit text -a, --alltext Display all text regardless that you know better -b, --buffer Buffer the entire file into memory. Faster, and enables insert and delete. -d, --disk File editing is a disk. OpenBSD and Linux only. -f, --force Force editing of a disk. Need this option to enable writing to disks. -q, --quiet Quiet Mode; Turn off all beeping. -r, --readonly Do not allow modifying the file -v, --version Display version number Commands and keys ^A Insert byte Insert Insert byte ^D Delete byte Delete Delete byte ^E viEw as text dump ^F Page down ^V Page down Page Down Page down ^B Page Up ^Y Page Up Alt-V Page Up Page Up Page Up Tab Switch from hex to text representation ^I Switch from hex to text representation ^T goTo offset ^G Get help ^L Redraw screen ^C Quit without saving ^O Save ^X Save and Quit ^W Search (text/hex) ^N find Next ^U Undo ^R ASCII <=> EBCDIC ^P Switch Spacings ^+ Binary Calculator Author Adam Rogoyski <apoc@laker.net> See Also od (1) BUGS
Editing disks is only supported in Linux and OpenBSD. Please email Adam Rogoyski <apoc@laker.net> with any bugs you might find. This man page is intentionally brief. Please Read the included documentation in Texinfo format for additional information HEXEDITOR(1)
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