Is AIX ebcdic? I use dd to convert files from ebcdic to ascii. Are they sending you packed data? I used to have to read the records using OSBREAD and then do an OCONV to unpack them.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Roy Beard Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2010 4:05 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 [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
