David Cole wrote:

>Trying to come up with a "decent" (whatever that means) EBCDIC to 
>ASCII translation is a bit like trying to decide the length of the 
>coastline of Maine. It's all a matter of opinion.

>So... I am asking your opinions ...


I ran into some conversion annoyances when I sent data to/from *ix and 
Windows to MVS.  I think the problems were with square brackets.  Using 
037 for MVS didn't work, but I noticed that FTP didn't have a problem. So, 
I switched to CCSID 924, which is what FTP used on MVS.

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