Need help with Reading/Editing of EBCDIC files at UNIX

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi Folks,

I need your help with Reading/Editing of EBCDIC files at UNIX. "dd" is not helping much so "iconv" too (as my file is packed decimal type). we will not be able to get access of powerexchange or mainframe.
I need atleast 100 records from each file.(if all is possible it would be awesome :cool:)

Thanks,
Ekta

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Not sure if this will help, try bvi (binary vi)...you may need to write a cheap c program.

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actually we work on citrix..only a handful of applications n due to n/w security they wont allow you to take files out of system..else i would have tried it with java too :frowning:
I need some help for unix side only..:slight_smile:

~Ekta

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guess you were right.. just now i discovered gcc on my AIX so i guess C would be the best way to do it...can you pls illuminate a bit on it.. i have never been very good with C .. ..thanks a lot :slight_smile: :slight_smile: