On 09/11/10 22:21, Roy Beard wrote: > It apparently is a 7 bit file, hence when I use vt100 (7 bit) I can read it, > But not vt220 (8 bit). It is not a directory but a pipe delimited file.
It looks to me a bit like a Prime file! Can you look at the file with a hex viewer? If you've got access to Midnight Commander I think that had a hex-view mode. If each byte starts with 8 or higher then the file is "7 bit with parity on" and no wonder it looks weird! You'll need to get it converted to parity off - dead easy to say but I don't know how to string the unix utilities together to make it work for you. But you'd just need to AND each byte with 0x7f. Cheers, Wol > -----Original Message----- > From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org > [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of George Gallen > Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2010 5:10 PM > To: U2 Users List > Subject: Re: [U2] Reading a Unix file from another machine. > > was the original file in EBCDIC? otherwise why convert it to ascii? > Is it a directory structure written out as a binary file? Will cpio > read the file? > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users- >> boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Roy Beard >> Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2010 5:05 PM >> To: 'U2 Users List' >> Subject: [U2] Reading a Unix file from another machine. >> >> Hi all, >> >> >> >> I am trying to read a Unix file from and old aix machine. The people >> who >> sent it will not bend in how they sent it. >> >> What I got was in binary format so I used 'od' to convert it to ascii. >> When >> I tried to cat the file before trying to READSEQ records it looked like >> gibberish! >> >> I realized that if I set my Term type to vt100, I could read it but the >> carriage returns were just ^M after each record. After trying 'sed' I >> gave >> up. >> >> >> >> Universe will not read the file at all. I still get gibberish even on >> the >> converted file. >> >> >> >> Any ideas? There must be a way to do this. What am I missing? >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> >> >> Roy >> _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
