applying unix command in EBCIDIC file

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Hi,
I'm having a general query. If we do cat <file name> on a Ebcidic format file then many unknown characters are displayed in my screen.
Can we change the character set related to EBCIDIC in session level and apply the cat command on a EBCIDIC file? By doing so can we able to see the actual alphabets and digits in the monitor after the cat command?:rolleyes:

  Please let me know your comments about this.

Thanks,
Poova.

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The best is to copy the file with dd e.g.

dd if=$infile of=$outfile conv=ascii
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thanks.

Can we do it without converting to ascii by changing the character set environment variables? If so how to do it?