Re: Reading EBCDIC data from 9 track tape

Posted in 1994

Jack Winslade — 18 Oct 94 00:05:05 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

estabroo@sea07s.navsea.navy.mil (Peter Estabrook) writes: >We are getting data on 9 track tape and I'm looking for a good unix >utility to help me read it to file. Assuming you have a working tape drive, dd will do the EBCDIC->ASCII conversion and even leave you with nice nl-delimited records. RTFM on dd and look for 'conv' and 'cbs'. ;- Hope this helps. Good day JSW