Paul Gronke wrote:

> This might work:  http://www.vedit.com/download/ebcdic-2.txt
>
> Here is a package that claims to convert and has a free 30 day full
> use demo
>
> http://www.datamystic.com/textpipe/comp3_packed.html
>
> I also recall doing this in SAS but LONG ago.

SAS used to have functions and formats which would read & unpack these
data. (If I remember correctly, not only are these data ebcidic rather
than ascii, they're in some compressed format -- packed decimal or zoned
decimal or something like that.) There was also a DATASOURCE procedure
in SAS/ETS which was designed to read this and other continuing economic
series. If you have access to SAS, you might check these out.

James Cassell

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