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  3. January 2005

Re: FTP Issue

Or, depending on what you need to do with the file on the Unix box, you
could write that program to understand EBCDIC and packed decimal.

As a general rule, if a file contains anything other than pure text (even
zoned fields, if there are any negative values, although there, the
garbling is at least simple, predictible, and above all, reversible), it
should either be converted to pure text before transferring, or it should
be transferred as binary, with any conversions done on the receiving end.
It's just asking for trouble to try and apply a dumb EBCDIC-to-ASCII
conversion to anything other than pure text.

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JHHL

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