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Convert EBCDIC(.DAT) FILE into ASCII FILE
Post 302997974 by Corona688 on Tuesday 23rd of May 2017 03:12:23 PM
05-23-2017
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button.We also need to know more about the data files. When people say "EBCDIC" they often mean "packed decimal" which is a completely different problem.
Long story short, if you can't post a representative sample of the data - preferably fed through hexdump -C < file.dat first - we can't help you.
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