topic Line Feed ASCII code in Operating System - HP-UX

Line Feed ASCII code

Peter Chang_1 — Tue, 27 Nov 2001 22:57:35 GMT

Does anyone know how to pass an ASCII line feed control character from a EBCDIC machine.

We are implementing a printer that uses an ASCII line feed control character to end each line of data. However, we are printing from an mainframe application that is EBCDIC based.

Any assistance would be appreciated.

Re: Line Feed ASCII code

Dave La Mar — Tue, 27 Nov 2001 23:21:05 GMT

LF in EBCDIC is % in ascii.
dl

Re: Line Feed ASCII code

Rodney Hills — Tue, 27 Nov 2001 23:23:06 GMT

Since you posted your question to hpux, here is the hpux command to convert from ebcdic to ascii (line feed codes will be added)

dd if=ebcdic_file of=ascii_file conv=ascii,unblock ibs=1024 cbs=80

The dd options are- "if" is the ebcdic input file, "of" is the resulting ascii output file, "ibs" is the block size of the file (sample shows 1024 bytes), and "cbs" is the fixed length record size (sample shows 80 bytes) of each ebcdic record.

-- Rod Hills