> Don't let me scare anyone, but this question is actually for _work_.
> :-) 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.
>
>
> Bill Richman
> bill_r_at_inetnebr.com
> http://incolor.inetnebr.com
The MKS Toolkit (I've still got the older dos versions...) has the
Unix dd utility ported to DOS/Windows.
There may be public domain ports as well...
The Linux and BSD folks all have the source code in C available
if you've got a C coder willing to cobble them together on DOS.
Bill
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Received on Tue Nov 28 2000 - 16:38:40 GMT