That's what I need to do, take an EBCDIC file, and translate it to ASCII. While the task isn't that difficult, if somebody has already written an elegant solution, I feel no need to do it too. So, if anybody know of a solution for this conversion that's already done, please let me know. Thanks, John ===== Want to unsubscribe from this list? ===== Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to macperl-request@macperl.org