>If the format is one of many widely-supported formats, you might look at a package like Monarch or Data Junction to do the conversions for you, too.
I was just browsing this thread...I solved this way back, one time, by uploading the binary file with FTP, then downloading as type binary, I think...something did the translating correctly, anyway...though it could have been specific to that mainframe...
The Anonymous Bureaucrat,
and frankly, quite content not to be
a member of either major US political party.