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dd(1) just might do the trick.
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Re: Re: Writting IBM OS standard label EBCDIC tapes with Perl?
by Plankton (Vicar) on Sep 11, 2003 at 21:48 UTC
    dd does convert asscii to ebcdic but it does NOT write the IBM OS standard label. Also later I need to read EBCDIC tapes created on a IBM mainframe that have variable lenght records. dd seems to completely ignore files on the tape where written like that.
    Plankton: 1% Evil, 99% Hot Gas.
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      Unfortunately, I don't even know what that means :) I just threw it in as a suggestion -- instead of writing a converting module, one can just use dd.
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