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Ah! Well if your source of the orcad files is still available, why dont you
ask for it sent as a postscript file ?  Orcad certainly had that capability,
just by setting the PLOTTER driver to postscript - Yes - I said PLOTTER
driver, not PRINTER driver - there are two separate settings.  Then you use
the Plotall command from DOS to print the orcad files to a postscript file.
You should be able to read that with ghostscript, or whatever.

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budgie wrote in message <3d478c7b.4860249@news.cantech.net.au>...
>On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 09:02:59 +1000, "Adrian M Jansen" <qqv@xyz.com>
>wrote:
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>>Ok,  most people have forgotten about the DOS versions, and how they work.
>>Orcad SDT 3.xx was a DOS program ,and had its own printer and plotter
>>drivers.  You can specify them in one of the configuration menus on
starting
>>Orcad with the /c switch.  I depends only on what printer driver was
>>configured here, there are no 'default printer drivers' within the DOS
>>system.  Since you say the file is binary,
>
>no, I never claimed any such thing.
>
>> and with no obvious header
>>strings, my guess is its a HP printer language file, not postscript, which
>>is text.  There are some programs to turn that back into editable form,
sort
>>of.  A search on google should show some up.  I've never done it.  Orcad
was
>>pretty poor at that sort of compatibility.  Even if you get the files
resent
>>as a postscript file, which at least is text, you still cant directly put
>>them in editable form.
>
>Maybe my word selection was misleading.   I used redigestion rather
>than editable - the intention was to have it in an electronically
>transportable form which was moderately platform-independent.
>Ironically, the .prn file seems to do a lot of that, although I guess
>I was expecting a graphics_package-compatible form.