[vox-tech] using dd to convert ebcdic to ascii?

[Richard Harke]

did you look at info dd?
conv=ascii


On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 9:41 AM, Brian Lavender <brian at brie.com> wrote:

> I have some files I am retrieving from a Mainframe. I am using dd to
> convert
> them to

   `ascii'

          Convert EBCDIC to ASCII, using the conversion table specified

          by POSIX.  This provides a 1:1 translation for all 256 bytes.


> So it sounds very reasonable

Richard


> ascii. Is this a good way to convert? The file "foo.txt" is in
> ebcdic.
>
> dd if=foo.txt of=foo_ascii.txt conv=ascii
>
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