Re: Help! Converting files from a Cobol app

From: Robert Wagner (spamblocker-robert_at_wagner.net)
Date: 10/27/04 

Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 03:16:41 GMT

On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 21:40:48 GMT, "Vilco" <t@h.c> wrote:

>The character fields, like the surname and name of the persons,
>are not full-plain text: every some six-to-ten characters there is one inconsistent character, like a german umlaut in the half of
>an otherwise plain italian surname (like "ferraļi" instead of "ferrari").

The file system was extfh and DATACOMPRESS was turned on. It uses two
similar RLL algorithms, which compress strings of repeating
characters. One has two bytes, the first being binary 2-31 and the
second, the character. The other has three bytes, the first being DC4
(ASCII 20, the character shown above), the second is binary 2-255 and
the third, the character. If you read the file via extfh, you don't
need to worry about expansion.

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