[ale] signed numbers from as/400 file?

Christopher Fowler cfowler at opsup.com
Wed Nov 5 16:54:52 EST 2003


Send me the top of the file and let me take a look.

On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 15:20, Christopher Bergeron wrote:
> Does anyone know of a utility to convert signed bytes from an AS/400
> into ascii text?  I'm ftp'ing a file down from an AS/400 and in on of
> the fields, I have 7 binary bytes.  It's not ebcdic, because the rest of
> the file is plain ASCII.  It's a number field, so I think it's some
> format that the AS/400 stores numbers in.
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> Does this make any sense to anyone?
> 
> Thanks,
> cB
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