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.