Thanks for the advice David. I was honestly hoping this little converstion program already existed somewhere so I wouldn't have to write it.

I am not getting files from tape, my files are returned from a CICS transaction, so there is no automatic conversion to ASCII.

Thanks again,


>Its been a while since I worked with EBCIDIC since most programs that read data off a 9-track tape will do the EBCIDIC to ASCII conversion automatically. If you can't get the conversion done at the source you can write a small program to convert it yourself. Basically you setup a key-value table for each EBCIDIC character and just lookup the EBCIDIC code and read off the ASCII value.
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>>I am trying to read a file that comes from an IBM Mainframe, but they are in EBCIDIC. Anyone have pointers on how to convert EBCIDIC to ASCII? Better yet, does anyone have an editor I could open the file with?
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>>Thanks for the help,