I went out to java.sun.com and couldn't find cp1047 encoding. Does anyone know if this is supported in J2SE v1.4? Also what is the difference between cp1047 and cp500?

InputStreamReader isr = new InputStreamReader(inputFile, "cp500");

The problem I have is I am trying to read a file from a PC(ASCII) and send that information thru a socket which needs to be converted to EBCDIC.

I believe what is happening is that the file is being converted to unicode and then sends unicode thru the socket. Please help.