was the original file in EBCDIC? otherwise why convert it to ascii? Is it a directory structure written out as a binary file? Will cpio read the file?
> -----Original Message----- > From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- > boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Roy Beard > Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2010 5:05 PM > To: 'U2 Users List' > Subject: [U2] Reading a Unix file from another machine. > > Hi all, > > > > I am trying to read a Unix file from and old aix machine. The people > who > sent it will not bend in how they sent it. > > What I got was in binary format so I used 'od' to convert it to ascii. > When > I tried to cat the file before trying to READSEQ records it looked like > gibberish! > > I realized that if I set my Term type to vt100, I could read it but the > carriage returns were just ^M after each record. After trying 'sed' I > gave > up. > > > > Universe will not read the file at all. I still get gibberish even on > the > converted file. > > > > Any ideas? There must be a way to do this. What am I missing? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Roy > > _______________________________________________ > U2-Users mailing list > U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org > http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
