A file that contains data made up of ASCII characters. It is essentially raw text just like the words you are reading now. Each byte in the file contains one character that conforms to the ...

I have a couple MBs of Spanish ASCII for DOS text files that I need to convert to something a little more usable.<P>Can anyone point me to a table of the codes and characters of Spanish ASCII ...

Because the OS/390 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.