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If the information is important to you, hire someone to help you. If
you do it just for fun, install Linux and learn a real OS. As a small hint, when you have installed Linux, try "man iconv" and you will se how to use the tool iconv. Regards, Victor "dafon" wrote in message ... If you translate these bytes from one character code to another, you will render them incomprehensible. Even if I save it as a new file? "Charles Jardine" wrote in message ... dafon wrote: why yes! I went with windows! Then you won't have available to you any tools relevant to the difficult task of converting the data in a tape written by one of the old EBCDIC based IBM OSs into a form suitable for use on a modern OS. This is not just a matter of converting the character code, although that can be hard enough, as there were many different EBDCIC code pages. You have also to cope with the fact the the old IBM OSs used structured files. Not every byte in such a file necessarily represents a character. Some byte sequences may be block descriptors or record descriptors. These were not encoded in the character code, but were binary values. If you translate these bytes from one character code to another, you will render them incomprehensible. Since these file formats were going out of fashion at the same time as the Web was coming into fashion, you probably won't find much information about this topic on the Web. |
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Hello,
why yes! I went with windows! Well, it could be worse... Then you won't have available to you any tools relevant to the difficult task of converting the data in a tape written by one of the old EBCDIC based IBM OSs into a form suitable for use on a modern OS. === Of course 'iconv' should be available as a cygwin port. Apart from that a small tool called convert.exe (not _the_ FAT32 to NTFS convert.exe) is also able to do the basic transformation for some common ebcdic codepages like 037 (US) or 273 (German) Anyway these tools will help little when accessing real VSAM files coming from the mainframe due to the "internal formatting". If the file has "internal formatting" you'd probably need a decent file format decription unless you're a reengineering pro for such files. As you asked for webpages... CYGWIN (UNIX for Windows - yeah, yeah flame me if you like): http://www.cygwin.com/ Man-page for iconv (e.g. just do a search on "man iconv") http://www.hmug.org/man/1/iconv.html Man-page for man (the Jake special http://www.hmug.org/man/1/man.html HTH, Jochen |
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Jochen Kaiser wrote:
Of course 'iconv' should be available as a cygwin port. Apart from that a small tool called convert.exe (not _the_ FAT32 to NTFS convert.exe) is also able to do the basic transformation for some common ebcdic codepages like 037 (US) or 273 (German) Looking at my installed cygwin man pages and the page at hmug.org you ilst, I can't find EBCDIC in the list of supported conversions. Is it present under some other name? Otherwise, iconv doesn't seem to help. Tom |
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Hello,
Of course 'iconv' should be available as a cygwin port. Apart from that a small tool called convert.exe (not _the_ FAT32 to NTFS convert.exe) is also able to do the basic transformation for some common ebcdic codepages like 037 (US) or 273 (German) Looking at my installed cygwin man pages and the page at hmug.org you ilst, I can't find EBCDIC in the list of supported conversions. Is it present under some other name? Otherwise, iconv doesn't seem to help. === I use iconv under Solaris and that one includes tables for converting EBCDIC. E.g. the US-EBCDIC codepage is named IBM-037 and so on... You should be able to download the conversion tables somewhere and place them und /usr/lib/iconv . The Solaris manpage may offer more details in this case: http://bama.ua.edu/cgi-bin/man-cgi?iconv+1 Unfortunately I assumed that the implementation was the same for all flavors of *nix (incl. the ones who say they are not UNIX) but this does not seem to be the case, at least in regard to supported/installed codepage conversion tables. HTH, Jochen |
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