Utility to help with EBCDIC files

[MarkDuignan]

Here’s a little utility program that can help you read EBCDIC files extracted from an IBM i server.

Imagine you have an EBCDIC file named INPUT.LOG in C:\temp on your PC.

• Extract E2A.EXE from the attached zip file to C:\TEMP.
• Open a MS-DOS box.
• CD C:\TEMP
• E2A INPUT.LOG OUTPUT.TXT

Look in C:\TEMP.

You should now have file OUTPUT.TXT which is the ASCII version of INPUT.LOG to view in NOTEPAD (say).

Please note: This is for basic EBCDIC to ASCII text conversions.
It will not handle European and Japanese special characters properly.