On Wed, 3 Aug 2022 20:33:47 +0100, Colin Paice wrote: > ... >However If this is a tagged file eg python file(in ascii) so it has *ls -T >my.py* of IBM8859-1 , I get the whole file read in ( presumably because > IBM8859-1? ISO8859-1? IBM819? Whatever.
What does "ls -THE file" show you? What does "od -tx1 file | head" show you? >there were no x15 characters to say end of line) > ??? >Are there any options I need to specify at fopen/fread/fgets which will >allow me to read the file line by line. > Is autoconversiion enabled at either creation or reading? >I'm thinking I'll have to read a big chunk from the file, convert ASCII to >EBCDIC, and search for x15 to split the line up > Shouldn't be necessary. jJust iconv -f ISO8859-1 -t IBM-1047 file Is UTF-8 in the game? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN