Line Feed ASCII code

[Peter Chang_1]

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.

[Dave La Mar]

LF in EBCDIC is % in ascii.
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[Rodney Hills]

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