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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.

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