Re: [MacPerl] EBCDIC in, ASCII out?

[John Gilmore-Baldwin <john@dwx.com>]

Just an FYI. My message was forwarded to somebody familiar with IBM
systems, and this person kindly pointed out to me that I was doing things
the hard way.

All I needed to do was FTP the file as a text file, and the FTP daemons
handle the EBCDIC->ASCII conversion.  This person was working with 390s,
but the behavior is the same on the AS/400 I'm working with.

Thought some might like to know. Thankfully, perl makes the conversion
easy, so I didn't lose a lot of time solving this problem.

Thanks all,
John

>Thanks all.
>
>I grabbed the Convert::EBCDIC module, and it works fine on the Mac. I
>haven't finished looking at all of the solutions I got, but I will.  And I
>really appreciate the help.
>
>Thanks again,
>John
>
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>>That's what I need to do, take an EBCDIC file, and translate it to ASCII.
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>>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
>>
>>
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