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In article <8905261645.AA11357@jade.berkeley.edu> Don Moore
        <XRDBM%SCFVM.bitnet@jade.berkeley.edu> writes:
|[...]
|Please respond if you know of any software packages that can translate
|the following:
|
|1. Data files from IBM to DEC/VAX and vice-versa (i.e. floating point,
|   integer).
|2. DEC style record formats to IBM and vice-versa (i.e. tab expansion,
|   null record padding, cairage control character handling).
|3. Character files from IBM to DEC/VAX and vice-versa (e.g. source code
|   and text files to and from EBCDIC/ASCII).
|4. Especially (but not limited to) conversions which can handle data
|   files which consist of numerous different record structures (i.e.
|   data is not oganized the same for every record in the file).
|5. Any translation software which can handle multiple machine formats
|   (not limited to IBM/DEC translatons).
|
|It would be useful if such a software package (if it exists) could be
|implemented on an IBM 43XX mainframe.  Any leads to any software that
|comes close to meeting the above criteria would be appreciated.

        Sun's XDR (eXternal Data Representation) routines
        are set up to handle much of the issues above directly,
        and can easily be shaped to handle record formats
        etc. as well. There is a C-like language specification
        which is implemented by a compiler which produces
        C code output.

        The source for the routines & compiler have been
        released in the public domain, & were released on
        the net fairly recently. They are probably archived
        at uunet, among several other places.

        Any Sun installation will have a manual on networking
        on the Sun which contains the full documentation of
        the XDR system. The documentation is also distributed
        with the source code.

Cheers,
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