If the binary file it truly 7 bit, try dos2unix -c 7bit master > newfile, then see if you can cat newfile.
rex On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Adrian Overs <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Roy, > What you need to do is to add a line feed LF char(10) to your carriage > returns char(13). > This can either be done at unix level by cat file | tr '\l' '\l\015' > file2 > (15 being the octal equivalent of 13) > or > programatically by > CHANGE(RECORD,CHAR(13),CHAR(10):CHAR(13),-1) > I don't have an AIX machine in front of me at the moment so I may not be > 100% correct on the syntax but that shout give you something to play around > with. > > On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Roy Beard <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 > _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
