To do this, you must assign the name of a file, which contains the conversion table, to the shell variable CONVERT before starting the corresponding CPI-C program.

When creating a conversion table, you must know the following:

• A comment must begin with the character *.
• Blank lines are allowed.
• The ASCII->EBCDIC conversion "a" is defined first, then the EBDIC->ASCII conversion "b".
• The function values are represented without hyphens or blanks as 2-character HEX numbers.
• Only the function values are entered in the file. The arguments are derived from the sequence of function values. The file has the following structure: