Re: Subnovice question

On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 vhikida@inreach.com wrote:

> There must be a software package that both changes ASCII to EBCDIC and
> also will put numbers in packed decimal format. I think you should be able
> to find software on the web and talk to their sales or technical person.
[ snip (too much, caught packed decimals stuff too ]

At CPAN, we have Convert-EBCDIC which should do the ASCII/EBCDIC
stuff.  Another module is Convert::IBM390, which should handle
packed decimals.  Searching for "packed decimal" at perlmonks.org
turned up a few things, including another search term (COMP-3).

The following web site was mentioned in the COMP-3 discussion, and
may be of interest:
 http://digilander.libero.it/foxes/Packed_Decimal.htm

Gord