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Re: SFTP - ASCII mode?

On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 1:14 PM <SReeves@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:



However then I found this page that seems to indicate you can using inconv
'at the start or end of the sftp transfer '.


Assuming your file foo.ebcdic is in US EN EBCDIC and you want to send it as
ASCII text as foo.txt

/usr/bin/iconv -f IBM037 -t ISO8859-2 foo.ebcdic >foo.txt

Make sure to path the command /usr/bin/icon because *gulp* there are 2
iconv implementations floating around PASE ... (the other is
/QOpenSys/pkgs/bin/iconv)

I actually have this set up as a bash shell alias:

alias fromebcdic='/usr/bin/iconv -f IBM037 -t ISO8859-2 $*'


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