Convert::IBM390 -- functions for manipulating mainframe data

Convert::IBM390 is a Perl module.  It supplies various functions that
you may find useful when messing with IBM System/3[679]0 data.  See the
POD documentation in the module, or "man Convert::IBM390" after you have
installed it.

asc2eb, eb2asc, eb2ascp:  ASCII/EBCDIC conversion
packeb, unpackeb:  pack/unpack and convert an EBCDIC record
hexdump:  dump memory in an MVS-like format

Recent changes:

0.15 - Added 'F' sign for "unsigned" packed numbers.
0.16 - Rewritten to pull the packeb.c code into the XS routine.
     - Now builds correctly under Windows.
0.17 - Added the SMF timestamp data type.

Copyright  2001 Geoffrey Rommel.  This program is free software;
you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl
itself. 


How to Install
==============

This distribution includes both Perl/XS/C and Perl-only versions of the
module.  See INSTALL for more details on how to figure out which one
is better for you and how to install it.


Geoffrey Rommel
DBA Technical Consultant
Sears, Roebuck and Co.
GROMMEL@cpan.org

September 1999
