On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Wesley J Landaker wrote:

> It's not ruby, but translating EBCDIC to ASCII is easily done with 
> iconv. It's part of the glibc distribution, so it should be available 
> anywhere you have glibc (i.e. linux, windows w/ cygwin, etc.)

It's also easily done using dd.  The problem is that there are packed 
decimal fields embedded in the record.  Also, the tape this data is from 
arrived without a data description.  I was hoping to write a somewhat 
generalized tool for interactively figuring out the format.

-- Matt