I have a UNIX COMP6 file that has some sort of packed fields, and I
cannot read it in Excel or MS Access.  If you can crack it, I'd
appreciate it.  The data file and description of the data file can be
found here:  http://floridalandco.com/helpshare.zip

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Clarification of Question by cafeman-ga on 20 Apr 2006 10:47 PDT

To clarify, the answer will include a file in Excel, MS Access or CSV
format with all appropriate data per data file description.

There is no way to post a file of that size on Google Answers.  A
researcher might be able to put the file somewhere else and post a
link to it here.

I will not be answering this question myself, but I will share some
information in case any other researcher wants to pursue it.

The zip file to which the question links contains two files.  One is
the data file and the other is a PDF file containing a record layout
in the COBOL programming language.  Some of the fields in the record
are declared COMP-6, which is a binary-coded decimal format.  The
unpacked data file contains 7,813,106 bytes.  The record layout
contains about 76 fields.

great thanks!