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 >>
 >> Hi,
 >>
 >> I need routines to convert data from ASCII to EBCDIC and vice versa.
 >> Can anyone point me to these utilities on the web or send them to me.

The code is trivial; just use a straight lookup table.

It's getting the right table that's the hard part; to do that, you need
to know *which* EBCDIC you're talking about (and, indeed, whether you
want the results in 7-bit ASCII or, say, ISO-8859/1).

EBCDIC has hundreds of minor variants (which nevertheless differ in such
significant characters as '[') for different countries (and, I believe,
at least 3 variants in use within the US alone).

The GNU "recode" utility (available from ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu
or any of the GNU mirror sites) contains plausible-looking translation
tables for several EBCDIC variants.

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