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Date:      Wed, 31 Jan 2001 11:49:12 -0600 (CST)
From:      Dan Bongert <dbongert@ssc.wisc.edu>
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: EBCDIC -> ASCII
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20010131114912.dbongert@ssc.wisc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <p05010402b69def9d2ac4@[128.113.24.47]>

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Try dd:

dd if=infile of=outfile conf=ascii

On 31-Jan-2001 Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> At 1:33 PM -0800 1/29/01, Josef Grosch wrote:
>>Does anybody know of an EBCDIC to ASCII converter? I thought
>>that at one time FreeBSD had one of these.
> 
> Note there are multiple ideas of what it means to be EBCDIC.
> Alphanumerics stay the same between them, of course, but a
> few of the special characters (braces, brackets, accent-grave)
> move around.
> 
> I'm pretty sure there are some programs in the ports
> collection which can deal with these.

-- 
Dan Bongert                     dbongert@ssc.wisc.edu
SSCC Unix System Administrator  (608) 262-9857


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