EBCDIC <--> ASCII conversion

[Jonathan I. Kamens]

In article <1756 at dinl.mmc.UUCP>, noren at dinl.uucp (Charles Noren) writes:
|> We are communicating between Sun 3 (with SunOS 4.0.3) and an
|> IBM Mainframe (don't know the model, we're not IBM jocks)
|> via TCP/IP.  Our question, is there any program in Netland
|> that converts back and forth between EBCDIC and ASCII
|> (preferrably in C, but we will take any example)?

  The Unix program "dd" does this.  In particular, the "conv=ascii" option
converts EBCDIC to ASCII, and the "conv=ebcdic" option goes the other way.

  See the man page for more information.

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