Converting from ibm850 to iso8859-1

Hi,

I have a system around 800 or so .p, .w and .i files. They are saved in ibm850 format. For consistency i would want them in iso8859-1 (we have another system running in that codepage).

Basically I could write a program that does like pseudocode below. But isn't there any other way? A Progress applicaton for this kind of change perhaps?

repeat for each file {

create newFile in newdir.

repeat for each line of file {

input line.

output line to newFile convert target to iso8859-1.

}

}