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- From: tanp@ns (Bill Wendling)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: HELP - need C function to convert EBCDIC to ASCII
- Date: 21 Feb 1996 07:13:19 GMT
- Organization: Cen-Com Internet
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- mrspoon@ix.netcom.com inexplicably wrote:
- } Hope someone can help. have to convert file received from IBM
- } mainframe. Seems that Oracle can handle the packed date contained
- } therein, but nt the EBCDIC characters contained in the character
- } fileds.
-
- I can't give you the source (That's copyrighted), but it involves having
- a table of EBCDIC-ASCII conversions and using that table to loop through
- and convert the line you are receiving. It's not too difficult to program.
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