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Then as far as I know there is no simple solution.
Does the system you are using NOT have a "proprietary" conversion program to do the task?
If not then it is going to require a serious script of your own to do it.
It might require that you hexdump the file first to covert to ASCII base 16 format, (0x97 for example), and test for nibbles in each.
This is in its simplest form. Negation or sign extension will need to be taken into account and without seeing a small dump of the file there is little help I can give at this point.
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ECVT(3) Library Functions Manual ECVT(3)
NAME
ecvt, fcvt, gcvt - output conversion
SYNOPSIS
char *ecvt(value, ndigit, decpt, sign)
double value;
int ndigit, *decpt, *sign;
char *fcvt(value, ndigit, decpt, sign)
double value;
int ndigit, *decpt, *sign;
char *gcvt(value, ndigit, buf)
double value;
char *buf;
DESCRIPTION
Ecvt converts the value to a null-terminated string of ndigit ASCII digits and returns a pointer thereto. The position of the decimal
point relative to the beginning of the string is stored indirectly through decpt (negative means to the left of the returned digits). If
the sign of the result is negative, the word pointed to by sign is non-zero, otherwise it is zero. The low-order digit is rounded.
Fcvt is identical to ecvt, except that the correct digit has been rounded for Fortran F-format output of the number of digits specified by
ndigits.
Gcvt converts the value to a null-terminated ASCII string in buf and returns a pointer to buf. It attempts to produce ndigit significant
digits in Fortran F format if possible, otherwise E format, ready for printing. Trailing zeros may be suppressed.
SEE ALSO
printf(3)
BUGS
The return values point to static data whose content is overwritten by each call.
7th Edition May 15, 1985 ECVT(3)