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Re: Help: .PRN file from Orcad SDT

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From: budgie
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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From: budgie@nowhere.cantech.net.au (budgie)
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Subject: Re: Help:  .PRN file from Orcad SDT
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