On Tue, 18 Nov 1997 12:58:26 +0100, Lars Appel
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>(...)
>>My Problem is the character translation into the pc network.
>>Does anyone have a HP3000 based tool to translate the moved files
>>from Roman8 to PC-8 or Ansi-Ascii??
>(...)
>
>If it is just for mapping the 6 or 7 German Umlaut characters, then
>you might give the Posix Shell's "tr" (translate) Utility chance...
>
> Shell/iX> tr "abc" "ABC" < infile > outfile
>

I've done something similar with the POSIX dd utility. It has an
option where you can supply a translation file of 256 bytes. Each
input byte is then used as an index into this translation file and the
corresponding byte gets output.
 Sorry I can't be more specific but you get the drift probably.