Thanks. That's a big help. With CLIPB.EXE I ***may*** be able to get a binary file into the clipboard and then uploaded. That would solve the whole problem.
I'll find a download source. My understanding of the GPL is that the source code has to be "available" but whatever, I can find it. Yes, I have e-mailed data to the client. Can they get around to uploading it in anything resembling a timely fashion? No. I mentioned that in my first post. This is a difficult client situation, to say the least. Thanks again, Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Arthur T. Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 1:28 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Looking for binary to character translation utility Have you considered either e-mailing the data to the client or shipping them a tape and leaving it up to them to get the data to their mainframe? However, if you *really* want a program to make a file you can copy-and-paste, you could try looking for source for uuencode and uudecode. If you don't mind that the file will be twice the size, you could just write a program to UNPK the original data (in groups of bytes) and another program to PACK them back on the far end. I'll leave it as an exercise for the student to take into account the last bytes of each group and what to do if the filesize is not a multiple of the group size. Once you have a display-character file on the PC, check out CLIPB.EXE which is available under GNU public license; it will copy an entire file into the clipboard. I'd offer to send the program to you, but I received it without source code and I'm not sure if the GPL allows me to redistribute it without source. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
