EBCDIC to ASCII conversion under ULTRIX

[Keld J|rn Simonsen]

gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes:

>In article <90240.091342HASKINS at MAINE.BITNET> HASKINS at MAINE.BITNET (Robert D. Haskins) writes:
>>Does anyone know how to convert a file that is in EBCDIC format to ASCII
>>format?  Is there a command/program to do this under UNIX/ULTRIX ?

>Unfortunately, there are multiple notions of EBCDIC encoding and the one
>that "dd" implements may not be 100% what you want, although it should be
>quite close.

I have made a program to do conversion between about 60 character sets
including 20 versions of EBCDIC. You can pick it up at dkuug.dk
with anon ftp, or by mailing archive at dkuug.dk with subject: files pub
and on a line on itself:
Names: ch.shar

enjoy

Keld Simonsen