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Article #11978Re: Help: .PRN file from Orcad SDT
From: budgie
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 05:59
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 05:59
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On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 15:36:15 +1000, "Marc" <marcwolf123@killthespam.yahoo.com> wrote: > >What printer, connection and commands exactly "spat out the correct schematic >image" ? > >That may give some clues to the format... HP5L on LPT1: in DOS box under 98SE. Command spelled out exactly in O/P. Peter >"budgie" <budgie@nowhere.cantech.net.au> wrote in message >news:3d462082.3342289@news.cantech.net.au... >> On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 08:55:28 +1000, "Adrian M Jansen" <qqv@xyz.com> >> wrote: >> >> >If its a true postscript file, it will be text, not binary. That isnt to >> >say it will be readable, except by a postscript reader. Ghostscript works >> >on almost any postscript files I have tried, certainly on files produced by >> >my old DOS version of Orcad. >> >> That's what has me concerned - I did the copy command as previously >> posted and it spat out the correct schematic image. I have 5D (Jaws) >> for ps to pdf conversions, and it spat the dummy - said "not a ps >> file". I checked and his SDT is version 3.something. >> >> Peter >> >> >budgie wrote in message <3d45381c.6612792@news.cantech.net.au>... >> >>I have a file as per header, sent by colleague. It was the only >> >>electronic output option he had, and it sounded great at the time. >> >> >> >>Problem is, I want it in soft form for digestion into something else - >> >>almost anything else in fact. But the format baffles everything I >> >>have tried on it. Obviously I can "copy file.prn lpt1:" at a DOS >> >>prompt, but that wasn't the objective. >> >> >> >>Can anyone suggest a redigestion route? >> >> >> >>TIA >> >> >> >>Peter >> > >> > >> > >
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