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EBCDIC TO ASCII Conversion through UNIX Command

Hi All ,
I have a mainframe file which contains the data in EBCDIC unreadable format.I have downloaded this raw unreadable file from mainframe system to windows in text format then I pushed to Unix system.Now I want to convert this file to ASCII readable format file in unix.Can anyone advise me how can I do that from EBCDIC(unreadable format) TO ASCII(readable format) file Conversion through Unix Command.Any suggestion in this regard will be highly appreciated.
 

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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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