Hi TIA. Thanks. So we're working from an actual file. Do you know or have information on that file's format? Those two programs I linked to for you should be able to process the file into ASCII if the data file is straight ASCII. Please note, ASCII is "not" simple. There is the original 7 bit ASCII which is True ASCII for ancients like myself, but then there is 8 bit ASCII where you'd have to know whether the eighth bit is Even Parity/Odd Parity/Null or No Parity. As Dick mentioned, depending on the originating system, it could be binary with low bit first or the other way with high bit first.

JohnInKansas is giving heavy tech speak, but it boils down to "find out what the convention is for your binary data".