RE: File Conversion ?

Bring it up in plan text and parse the hex characters into a 2 byte field
and convert hex to char or numeric, 256 times.  Saving the result into your
256 byte file.

Christopher K. Bipes     mailto:ChrisB@Cross-Check.com
Sr. Programmer/Analyst   mailto:Chris_Bipes@Yahoo.com
CrossCheck, Inc.         http://www.cross-check.com
6119 State Farm Drive    Phone: 707 586-0551 x 1102
Rohnert Park CA  94928 Fax: 707 586-1884

If consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, only geniuses work here.
Karen Herbelin - Readers Digest 3/2000


-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Allen [mailto:markallen@kellyskids.com]
Sent: Friday, April 07, 2000 6:06 AM
To: 'MIDRANGE-L
Subject: File Conversion ?


I have a plain text file on my PC that contains EBCDIC data formatted as
below:

F1C1F1F9F9F9F7F2F1F0F5F1F6F1F3404040404040404040D2C5D3D3E87DE2....  etc.
etc.

(512 characters...i.e. 256 byte 400 file)

This was originally a 400 file that was downloaded using Client Access to
the PC and obviously the EBCDIC to ASCII conversion did NOT take place.  The
400 file is now GONE (yes, no backup) and I need to recreate it from the
diskette data.  Here's where I am stuck.  How can I get this file back up to
the 400 (in a 256 byte file)??



Mark Allen
IS Manager
Kelly's Kids
markallen@kellyskids.com
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