file size estimation

2006-09-15 Thread Zhao Peng
Hi, Suppose a EBCDIC file on a tape from IBM mainframe is read onto a Linux server, and this EBCDIC file on the tape has 100 records with a length of 13054, is it correct to estimate the size of the file on Linux server would be 1,305,400 bytes? Is block size information also needed to

Re: file size estimation

2006-09-15 Thread Bill Ricker
Suppose a EBCDIC file on a tape from IBM mainframe is read onto a Linux server, and this EBCDIC file on the tape has 100 records with a length of 13054, is it correct to estimate the size of the file on Linux server would be 1,305,400 bytes? Maybe. [Last time I did this, I out-sourced it to a