dd is for converting EBCDIC to ASCII and vice versa :) $ echo how now brown cow > text.ascii $ dd conv=ebcdic < text.ascii > text.ebcdic 0+1 records in

dd is for converting EBCDIC to ASCII and vice versa :) $ echo how now brown cow > text.ascii $ dd conv=ebcdic < text.ascii > text.ebcdic 0+1 records in 0+1 records out 18 bytes copied, 0.000261094 s, 68.9 kB/s $ od -xc text.ebcdic 0000000 9688 40a6 9695 40a6 9982 a696 4095 9683 210 226 246 @ 225 226 246 @ 202 231 226 246 225 @ 203 226 0000020 25a6 246 % 0000022 $ dd conv=ascii < text.ebcdic how now brown cow 0+1 records in 0+1 records out 18 bytes copied, 0.000140529 s, 128 kB/s