Stingray 4.4 Update -- the Posix split command applied to COBOL files
Here's an interesting problem. Implement the split command for mainframe COBOL EBCDIC files with their BDW and RDW headers.
The conventional split can't handle COBOL EBCDIC files because they don't have sensible \n line breaks. Translating an EBCDIC file to ASCII is high-risk because COMP and COMP-3 fields will be …
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