Utility to help with EBCDIC files
Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2014 3:29 pm
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.
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.