>Does anyone have or know of a program/process/command file to quickly
>convert back and forth between integer values and the string version of
>their bit equivalent?
In COBOL/iX, you might use a call to HP_BYTE_PACK or HP_BYTE_UNPACK,
as described in the MPE/iX 6.0 Communicator (COBOL II/iX Enhancements).
On the other hand, COBOL probably does not count as script :-)