freebsd-ports/converters/p5-Convert-IBM390/pkg-descr
Aaron Dalton fd62e088a1 - update port from v0.20 to v0.21
- 0.21 - Added '@' option to unpackeb at the request of Marc (CPAN bug 15461).
2005-12-02 16:34:21 +00:00

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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:
0.16 - Rewritten to pull the packeb.c code into the XS routine.
- Now builds correctly under Windows.
0.17 - Added the SMF timestamp data type.
0.18 - Performance improvements to the XS version.
0.19 - Fixed a bug in unpackeb.
0.20 - Fixed memory leaks in CF_num2packed and CF_num2zoned.
0.21 - Added '@' option to unpackeb at the request of Marc (CPAN bug 15461).
Copyright 2001 Geoffrey Rommel. This program is free software;
you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl
itself.