I think that would depend on what encoding was used.
One would have to go to some lengths to use a double-
byte encoding in COBOL. I'm told that ISO-8859-6 is
widely used. If these are flat files (FA/FB/VA/VB)
without binary (computational) fields, then ftp in
ASCII mode should work well. Otherwise, if there are
binary fields or if the file is KSAM, it would be
best to write a small cobol program to read and re-
write the files without binary fields or indexes and
then transfer them. If you are moving to MS-Windows,
Reflection can be used to transfer the files, with
the Windows code page set to CP1256.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Loay Elias [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 1:41 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Cobol Files
>
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> Dear All
>
> I have hp3000 machine with cobol files on it.
> I need the transfer this data to another place that i can access...
> the data which is stored on the cobol files are in arabic language
> is it possible to do that
>
> Regards,
> Loay Kassissieh
> System Engineer
>
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