At 5:51 PM -0400 7/14/00, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>I hope this is not a stupid question, but can you convert an ASCII file to
>EBCDIC?  I'm thinking of a program that would input an ASCII file and output
>a new file in EBCDIC format.


No question is stupid, if asked in ernest. (I can just feel the replies
queueing up in response to that statement!)

Anyway, FCOPY handles the conversion quite nicely. Please see

   http://jazz.external.hp.com/papers/pdfdocs/32212-90008.pdf

for a downloadable version of the FCOPY manual.

Or, wait a few more minutes, and I'm sure someone will post an example...


Cheers,


Barry Lake                                 [log in to unmask]
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