Solution found: I discovered that unix command iconv will do what I want. I transferred the offending file to z/OS as binary. Then this command:
iconv -f ISO8859-1 -t IBM-1047 test1.asc > test1.ebc The resulting file was properly formatted and stripped of the CRLF characters. This will turn out to be a pretty good solution for the user I think. Dave Low ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
