On Wed, 6 Nov 2002, Paul Hamm wrote: =>I am familiar with EBCDIC and ASCII conversion with dd. Currently I need to =>convert a mainframe tape in EBCDIC with packed decimal format into ASCII. =>dd does not handle packed decimal format. Does anyone know of a utilitie =>that does? => =>Paul Hamm =>Manager Technical Services =>Open Ratings Inc =>617-582-5124 =>www.openratings.com This is gonna sound weird, but you might be able to write a PL/I program to do it. Packed decimal is an integral datatype of the language. IBM has a (the?) PL/I compiler, but I can put you in touch with the current owner of the PL/I compiler that runs under Digital Alpha Unix. Unfortunately, it sounds like the easiest way to go. Your only other alternative is to write something in perl going heavy with the pack and unpack functions. -- -Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have - -happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say Organ -Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all- -individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question? steveo@syslang.net -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
