08-19-2015
By PACT I'm guessing you mean "packed decimal". There is no simple converter which you can feed a file containing packed decimal into and get ASCII numbers out.
This is because they were never anything like ASCII, or even EBCDIC: They're more like raw binary numbers. What they mean depends on how you interpret them, and the file does not contain enough information to automatically process them, or even reliably determine where they begin or end.
Explanation of Packed Decimal
So you have to examine the file, experiment a bit, and determine what kind of numbers they are. Once you know that you can write a program which extracts the numbers individually and converts them in the correct manner and reassembles it to get the output you want.
If you could attach a sample of the data, that might be helpful.
Last edited by Corona688; 08-19-2015 at 03:35 PM..
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hppaccvdb
hppac(3X) hppac(3X)
NAME
hppac: HPPACADDD(), HPPACCMPD(), HPPACCVAD(), HPPACCVBD(), HPPACCVDA(), HPPACCVDB(), HPPACDIVD(), HPPACLONGDIVD(), HPPACMPYD(), HPPAC-
NSLD(), HPPACSLD(), HPPACSRD(), HPPACSUBD() - HP 3000-mode packed-decimal library
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
This set of calls invokes the library functions for emulating 3000-mode (MPE V/E) packed-decimal operations. These functions are in
library which is searched when the option is used with or ld(1).
Performs packed-decimal addition.
Compares two packed-decimal numbers.
Converts an ASCII representation to packed-decimal.
Converts a binary representation to packed-decimal.
Converts a packed-decimal number to ASCII.
Converts a packed-decimal number to binary.
Performs packed-decimal division.
Performs packed-decimal division (alternate routine).
Performs packed-decimal multiplication.
Performs a packed-decimal normalizing left shift.
Performs a packed-decimal left shift.
Performs a packed-decimal right shift.
Performs packed-decimal subtraction.
For all operations, the value returned in the variable to which the compcode argument points is one of the following values of type
Result > 0 or operand1 > operand2
Result < 0 or operand1 < operand2
Result == 0 or operand1 == operand2
For all operations, the value returned in the variable to which the pacstatus argument points is one of the following values of type Their
meanings are intended to be obvious:
AUTHOR
The HPPAC library was developed by HP.
SEE ALSO
PA-RISC Systems Only hppac(3X)