Date:         Tue, 25 Jan 2000 15:10:00 +0000
Reply-To:     Peter Crawford <Peter@CRAWFORDSOFTWARE.DEMON.CO.UK>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
From:         Peter Crawford <Peter@CRAWFORDSOFTWARE.DEMON.CO.UK>
Organization: Crawford Software Consultancy Limited
Subject:      Re: EBCDIC readers?

Jesse Weiher <jessew@ruf.rice.edu> writes
>I have approx 8gigs of data written on an old VM machine. I only have
>access to Unix machines here.
>
>My data was written in EBCDIC with "packed decimal format" (I think this
>implies EBCPAC). I have written an extraction program that should correctly
>read the data using the $EBCDICw. format. However, approx. 90% of my data
>is lost due to errors.
>
>I want to get a text editor that can read EBCDIC and EBCPAC sequences so as
>to see whether my data is corrupt. It would be wonderful if this editor
>could convert the files into ASCII format as well.
>
>
>Does anybody know of such editors? Are there shareware/freeware versions of
>these
>
>Any help is appreciated.

If you have documentation of the data layouts,
you _may_ be better to use the $ebcdic and $s370Fxxx informats
(described in winXX online help)
                                            Width   Decimal  Default
   Informat     Description                 Range   Range    Width
   --------     -----------                 -----   -------  -------
   S370FIBw.d   IBM 370 integer binary      1-8     0-10     4
   S370FPDw.d   IBM 370 packed decimal      1-16    0-10     1
   S370FRBw.d   IBM 370 real binary         2-8     0-10     6
   S370FPIBw.d  IBM 370 positive integer
                binary                      1-8     0-10     4
   S370FZDw.d   IBM zoned decimal           1-32    0-10     8

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Peter Crawford