EBCDIC to ASCII 


Hi Jeff,

Do you know of a utility that can copy tapes created on IBM systems that are in EBCIDIC format to ASCII format on the AlphaServer?

Drake Settsu

Email : dsettsu@yahoo.com

Dave ...

I'm sorry I don't have exactly what you are looking for at this time. I do have a generic tape copy utility written in PASCAL, which you can find on my PASCAL page, but it does not convert EBCDIC to ASCII.

However OpenVMS doesn't leave you high and dry in this matter. If you are a competent programmer and can write a program to read and write physical blocks from a tape (or logical records from a variable record size disk file), you should easily be able to translate your data. If you are running on a VAX, you can download a set of callable VAX-MACRO subroutines called TAPESUBS from my Utilities page.

The OpenVMS runtime library provides a routine called LIB$TRA_EBC_ASC which translates an EBCDIC buffer into an ASCII buffer. (Conversly there is a LIB$TRA_ASC_EBC routine as well).

Let me know if you need additional help in this area.

Jeff Cameron

20-MAR-2000

PS : Micro Technology Inc. has a complete VMS/IBM, ANSI/EBCDIC solution called TAPECONVERT which alows you to convert whole tapes back and forth between platforms.

 


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