On 20 Mar 2008 16:44:16 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Todd Burch) wrote: >You're smart enough to know what a COBOL file is. So I didn't word it >perfectly. > >Actually, it doesn't matter what produced the file, as long as the binary >file to be converted could be described by a file that looks like a >copybook. ;)
But the combination of calling it "CoBOL" and "binary" does imply something that is significant in this thread. If it contains binary (or packed) numbers, a standard FTP conversion between EBCDIC and ASCII won't work. All of the data to be converted must actually be encoded in EBCDIC - which means they must be in USAGE DISPLAY. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
