Not a VFP solution, but this file contains a collection of source code files to do the conversion in Pascal, C, and Assembler. After looking through these it looks like you could create something similiar in VFP relatively easily.

toadebc.zip

>Hey All,
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>I've just finished searching the message base for the word EBCDIC and found a few references, although I didn't find what I'm looking for. What I'm wondering is if an EBCDIC-to-ASCII conversion utility exists out here in the FoxPro world. I've got a client who receives EBCDIC files from an outside source and we need to get them converted to ASCII.
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>Anybody have a solution?
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>Thanks in advance....