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Old 09-03-2012
applying unix command in EBCIDIC file

Hi,
I'm having a general query. If we do cat <file name> on a Ebcidic format file then many unknown characters are displayed in my screen.
Can we change the character set related to EBCIDIC in session level and apply the cat command on a EBCIDIC file? By doing so can we able to see the actual alphabets and digits in the monitor after the cat command?Smilie

Please let me know your comments about this.

Thanks,
Poova.
# 2  
Old 09-03-2012
The best is to copy the file with dd e.g.
Code:
dd if=$infile of=$outfile conv=ascii

# 3  
Old 09-04-2012
thanks.

Can we do it without converting to ascii by changing the character set environment variables? If so how to do it?
 
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