From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 29 13:39:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from fjord.dignus.com (sdsl-64-244-29-38.dsl.rdu.megapath.net [64.244.29.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F258437B699 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 13:38:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from lakes.dignus.com (lakes.dignus.com [10.0.0.3]) by fjord.dignus.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0TLdPn50589; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 16:39:26 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from rivers@dignus.com) Received: (from rivers@localhost) by lakes.dignus.com (8.9.3/8.6.9) id QAA25500; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 16:39:19 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 16:39:19 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas David Rivers Message-Id: <200101292139.QAA25500@lakes.dignus.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, jgrosch@mooseriver.com Subject: Re: EBCDIC -> ASCII In-Reply-To: <20010129133357.A55581@mooseriver.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Josef Grosch wrote: > > > Does anybody know of an EBCDIC to ASCII converter? I thought that at one > time FreeBSD had one of these. > > > Josef Check out the `dd' command.. particularly the `conv' suboption: conv= value[, value ...] Where value is one of the symbols from the following list. ascii, oldascii The same as the unblock value except that characters are translated from EBCDIC to ASCII before the records are converted. (These values imply unblock if the operand cbs is also specified.) There are two conver- sion maps for ASCII. The value ascii specifies the rec- ommended one which is compatible with System V. The value oldascii specifies the one used in historic AT&T and pre-4.3BSD-reno systems. - Dave Rivers - -- rivers@dignus.com Work: (919) 676-0847 Get your mainframe (370) `C' compiler at http://www.dignus.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message