Convert::ASCII-EBCDIC

This program is Copyright (c) 1996 Chris Leach.

This program is free software; you can use, distribute and/or
modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.


DESCRIPTION
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This module provides two functions ascii2ebcdic and ebcdic2ascii for
converting a string from/to ASCII to/from EBCDIC.


WARNING
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This release is considered alpha code. Handle with the appropriate care.
It only implements one possible translation table.


BUILDING THE MODULE
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    perl Makefile.PL
    make
    make test


INSTALLATION
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    make install


PORTABILITY
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This module has only been tested on AS400/OS400 V3R7 and
Sun/Solaris 2.5.1.  Please let me know, if there are some fixes necessary
for other systems. Thank you.

The tools directory contains programs for producing the translations
tables needed by tr. Use mkrtbl.pl on you EBCDIC system transfer the
resuling file with translation to and ASCII system. Run mkctbl.pl and
copy the resulting parts into the tr statements.


Enjoy,
Chris Leach <leachcj@bp.com>
