From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 31 9:48:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ssc.wisc.edu (ssc.wisc.edu [144.92.190.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8356537B491 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 09:47:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from copland.ssc.wisc.edu (copland.ssc.wisc.edu [144.92.190.86]) by ssc.wisc.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA73492 for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 11:47:13 -0600 (CST) Received: (from dbongert@localhost) by copland.ssc.wisc.edu (8.11.0/8.9.1) id f0VHnCO39573 for hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 11:49:12 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.6-3 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 11:49:12 -0600 (CST) From: Dan Bongert To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: EBCDIC -> ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message