PACKED fields to unpacked

[Ed Ackerman Programmer]

I am trying to take a 9 track tape from an IBM mainframe and convert it
to a straight ACSII file. The problem is that some (Most) of the fields
are in packed decimal format ie. COMP-3. I can handle the text translation
and I can handle the byte swaping (MSB-LSB) the problem is in unpacking
the fields. DOes anyone have any advice on the best way to handle this??

All help welcome

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