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Old 12-17-2008
Viewing Ebcidic files
I am having trouble viewing these files from my unix session. vi comes back with line too long. Also an m_dump with the relevant dml comes back with problems.

How can I view this as a text file? Also is there an easy way to view specific records within. Eg I have a policy id
# 2  
Old 12-17-2008
try:
Code:
dd if=your-ebcdic-file conv=ascii

# 3  
Old 12-17-2008
Right I used that with a | more on the end and now I can view it.

Any ideas how I can save specific records to a file? i.e. I have the output files and picked a few at random now I need to find them in input and compare. To prove the conversions work o.k.

Thanks for the reply btw
# 4  
Old 12-17-2008
i think your file is made up of fixed-length records ?
if so, you can use head -c and tail -c to extract the specific record.
for exsamples:
suppose the length of record is 512. so, if you want retrieve 10th's record.
you can use
head -c 5120 your-file | tail -c 512 .
# 5  
Old 12-17-2008
Thanks for the reply I got it finished.

Many Thanks
 
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