So, back to the past... can't imagine what these cards look like.<BR><BR>Anyone who knows anything about this?<BR><BR>Convert an 80 character ASCII file to IBM Column Binary format.<BR>AND<BR>Convert ...

Because the CMS host stores character data in EBCDIC format, you cannot read the transport file as ASCII data. In order to view an EBCDIC file in ASCII or hexadecimal format, you must interpret it.