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Old 07-18-2008
conversion of EBCIDIC to ASCII format
Hi all,
I need help on above said subject.
I have a flat file which is in EBCDIC format,i want to convert into ASCII fromat using 'MFSORT'. file contains COMP-3 value in some positions.

Can you please provide the SCRIPT SYNTAX.(assume that file is of 80 byte length and it is having COMP-3 values in 15-20,35-39 and 62-67 positions).

Let me know if you need any futher information.

Thanks,
Vijay
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Old 07-18-2008
From englisch Wikipedia site for dd, found by typing in "convert ebcdic ascii" into Google:

Quote:
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dd is used to copy a specified number of bytes or blocks, performing on-the-fly byte order conversions, as well as more esoteric EBCDIC to ASCII conversions.
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Maybe it helps trying it with dd. Else try your favourite search engine; there are tons of pages dedicated to that.

Also found this old thread here in the Unix forum:
https://www.unix.com/unix-dummies-que...-decimals.html
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Old 07-21-2008
dd if=input_file_name of=output_file_name conv=ascii
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