Re: [MacPerl] EBCDIC in, ASCII out?

[Irv Rabin <irabin@us.oracle.com>]

Peter Prymmer wrote:

> John Gilmore-Baldwin wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> There are a number of modules on CPAN that handle this.  Many are simply
> implemented using perl arrays and the tr// operator - hence they involve
> no XS coding at all.  Some allow for choosing and/or setting various
> codepages.  For example:
>
>   http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/CXL/
>   http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/CXL/Convert-EBCDIC-0.06.tar.gz
>
> Geoffrey Rommel has recently posted a couple of Convert::IBM390
> modules to the CPAN.  Convert-IBM390-0.01 is an xs based module
> (fast) and Convert-IBM390p-0.01 is a pure perl module (may be slower
> but easier to install, particularly on platforms without C compilers).
> I've not yet had a chance to try them out but folks are certainly welcome
> to do so.  See:
>
>   http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/G/GR/GROMMEL/
>   http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/G/GR/GROMMEL/Convert-IBM390-0_01_tar.gz
>
> See also:
>
>   http://www.cpan.org/authors/Genji_Schmeder/
>   http://www.cpan.org/authors/Genji_Schmeder/Convert-Translit-1.03.tar.gz
>
> which was developed on a Mac (I do not know what EBCDIC codepages are
> mentioned in RFC 1345 unfortunately).
>
> Peter Prymmer

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