EBCDIC to ASCII Utility for DOS/Win?

From: Lawrence LeMay <lemay_at_cs.umn.edu>
Date: Tue Nov 28 16:36:10 2000

> Don't let me scare anyone, but this question is actually for _work_.

Good. My outside consulting rate is $200/Hr.

> :-) The mainframe guys asked me if I knew of any utilities for
> translating from EBCDIC to ASCII on a DOS or Windows PC, as they have
> a user who keeps getting big (12MB) data dumps from another company in
> EBCDIC, and they're getting tired up uploading it to the mainframe and
> back down just to get the EBCDIC->ASCII translation done. Any
> suggestions? Web searching has turned up very little of interest.

Well, there appear to be lots of such utilities listed on the web,
surely one of them would get the job done. There are editors that
can also translate EBCDIC, and several DOS based text translators.

For example, at: http://www.bookcase.com/library/software/msdos.util.text.html
There are several DOS programs that might do the trick:

CTRANS, EBC2ASC, EBCDIC, TOADEBC.

-Lawrence LeMay
Received on Tue Nov 28 2000 - 16:36:10 GMT

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