From: Dan Sugalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 12:55:31 -0400
At 7:30 PM -0700 8/15/03, Ranga Nathan wrote: >However even before this is a problem. When I get the file from the >mainframe, it has already been converted to ASCII but these hex values >will be translated to some unintelligble characters.
If it's already gone through an ASCII->EBCDIC converter and the data was in binary form, you're out of luck--the data has been corrupted. The only way to be able to do this is to make sure that the fields in question (if not the whole file) doesn't get converted.
As long as the conversion is reversible
Generally speaking, it isn't. Certainly not sufficiently safely to work backwards, unfortunately.
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Dan
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