Files created by an AS400

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010, Nancy Palmquist wrote:
>Fellow filePro programmers,
>
>I am trying to troubleshoot a problem where a file is  created by an 
>AS400 computer (I have no idea about OS or anything.) as a print image.  
>Then it is supposed be moved to a Windows machine and read by filePro as 
>ASCII.  I have  a program that may do some translation first before it 
>is full ASCII, but that program is waiting for an upgrade to 64 bit.  It 
>does run in XP Mode, however so that is where we are testing.

It's been ages since I worked with IBM mainframes, but the last
time I did, they used EBCDIC, not ASCII.

The standard *nix ``dd'' program does provide EBCDIC<>ASCII
conversions, and I think I used that decades ago when importing
data from IBM created 8in floppy disks to Xenix.

Bill
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