From: utzoo!decvax!genradbo!rob Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Title: Packed EBCDIC converter needed for dd Article-I.D.: genradbo.223 Posted: Fri Jun 11 14:08:21 1982 Received: Sun Jun 13 01:59:39 1982 Our MIS facility has a tape that is IBM EBCDIC format. We can read the tape with dd. However they use a packed format where numeric data is packed two numbers (4 bit) per byte. dd translates this into a character. Has anyone ever ran into this problem? Not all bytes have to be broken down, some really are characters. Please mail replies to decvax!genradbolton!rob. Thanks. Rob Wood.