On 15 October 2012 14:17, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote:

> Is there a TXT2TXT utility that will convert FORTRAN-style carriage motion 
> codes to the standard USASCII
> equivalents such as <FF>, <VT>, ...?

That would be the lpr/lpd set. I believe both the client and server
ends have to support the "fortran" option; the client sends a verb
specifying that column 1 contains CC, and the server does the
translation to whatever printer it is driving.

Of course "modern" lpr clients don't support this... But surprisingly,
the IBM TSO lpr client talking to the Windows 7 lpd server does seem
to handle most of the CC properly. No overprinting with +, but the
blank, 0, -, and 1 worked as expected. And if I set up a Windows
printer as "generic/text only" and "print to file", it really does
translate my FBA dataset on MVS to a text file containing LF, FF, and
so on on Windows. Not what you'd call convenient, but all standards
based.

Tony H.

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