did you look at info dd?<div>conv=ascii</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 9:41 AM, Brian Lavender <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brian@brie.com" target="_blank">brian@brie.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I have some files I am retrieving from a Mainframe. I am using dd to convert<br>
them to </blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> `ascii'</blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Convert EBCDIC to ASCII, using the conversion table specified</blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> by POSIX. This provides a 1:1 translation for all 256 bytes.</blockquote>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br></blockquote><div>So it sounds very reasonable</div><div><br></div><div>Richard</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
ascii. Is this a good way to convert? The file "foo.txt" is in<br>
ebcdic.<br>
<br>
dd if=foo.txt of=foo_ascii.txt conv=ascii<br>
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brian<br>
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