Good. My outside consulting rate is $200/Hr. Well, there appear to be lots of such utilities listed on the web, surely one of them would get the job done. There are editors that can also translate EBCDIC, and several DOS based text translators. For example, at: http://www.bookcase.com/library/software/msdos.util.text.html There are several DOS programs that might do the trick: CTRANS, EBC2ASC, EBCDIC, TOADEBC. -Lawrence LeMay

The MKS Toolkit (I've still got the older dos versions...) has the Unix dd utility ported to DOS/Windows. There may be public domain ports as well... The Linux and BSD folks all have the source code in C available if you've got a C coder willing to cobble them together on DOS. Bill -- bpechter(a)monmouth.com | FreeBSD since 1.0.2, Linux since 0.99.10 | Unix Sys Admin since Sys V/BSD 4.2 | Windows System Administration: "Magical Misery Tour"

TITLE CONVERT DOSSEG .MODEL SMALL,C .186 INCLUDE COLUMBUS.MAC INCLUDE DOS.MAC INCLUDE MACRO.MAC INCLUDE CONST.HA .DATA convtab LABEL BYTE BYTE 0, 1, 2, 3,156, 9,134,127 BYTE 191,141,142, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 BYTE 16, 17, 18, 19,157,133, 8,135 BYTE 24, 25,146,143, 28, 29, 30, 31 BYTE 128,129,130,131,132, 10, 23, 27 BYTE 144,145, 22,147,148,149,150, 4 BYTE 152,153,154,155, 20, 21,158, 26 BYTE 32,160,226,228,224,225,227,229 BYTE 231,241,162, 46, 60, 40, 43,124 BYTE 38,233,234,235,232,237,238,239 BYTE 236,223, 33, 36, 42, 41, 59,172 BYTE 45, 47,194,196,192,193,195,197 BYTE 199,209,166, 44, 37, 95, 62, 63 BYTE 248,201,202,203,200,205,206,207 BYTE 204, 96, 58, 35, 64, 39, 61, 34 BYTE 216, 97, 98, 99,100,101,102,103 BYTE 104,105,171,187,240,253,254,177 BYTE 176,106,107,108,109,110,111,112 BYTE 113,114,170,186,230,184,198,164 BYTE 181,126,115,116,117,118,119,120 BYTE 121,122,161,191,208,221,222,174 BYTE 94,163,165,183,169,167,182,188 BYTE 189,190, 91, 93,175,168,180,215 BYTE 123, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71 BYTE 72, 73,173,244,246,242,243,245 BYTE 125, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80 BYTE 81, 82,185,251,252,249,250,255 BYTE 92,247, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88 BYTE 89, 90,178,212,214,210,211,213 BYTE 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55 BYTE 56, 57,179,219,220,217,218,159 .STACK .CODE @ENTR <CONVERT,M,C>,<>,<> @WHIL NC READ STDIN,buff,512 @BREA push ax ;--------- here's the loop :) mov cx,ax lea si,buff mov di,si lea bx,convtab xlp: lodsb xlat stosb loop xlb ;--------- Thats it. pop cx WRITE STDOUT,buff,cx @BEND @EXIT 0 @END The Table is generated acording to IBM NLS RM Vol2 SE09-8002-01 Codeset IBM037 (aka CP037, aka EBCDIC-CP-US/-CA/-WT/-NL) Take care to use codeset used on the originateing machine and application - there are tons of EBCDIC versions out there. Gruss H. -- VCF Europa 2.0 am 28./29. April 2001 in Muenchen http://www.vintage.org/vcfe http://www.homecomputer.de/vcfe