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"budgie" <budgie@nowhere.cantech.net.au> wrote in message
news:3d469143.9683459@news.cantech.net.au...
> On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 22:14:36 +0930, "Steve Pugh"
> <stevepugh@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>
> >
> >"budgie" <budgie@nowhere.cantech.net.au> wrote in message
> >news: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
> >
> >Have you looked at this site
> >http://www.pclviewer.com/
> >Regards
> >Steve
>
> I've looked at the file with a hex editor, and it doesan't have any
> hint of a header thatgives any clues.  I am unable to see WHY it would
> be a PCL format file, given that the box it was created on (read O/P)
> hasn't heard about PCL.
You responded to a previous post with the information that the prn file in
question printed perfectly on a HP printer.
When you save to file on a pc the default printer driver installed on that
pc directs the inscribed print file to disc instead of to the printer. You
yourself by using the DOS redirector command > have sent that inscribed file
to your HP printer producing useful output.
This suggests that the prn file has been inscribed by a driver that either
emulates Printer Control Language or was itself a HP driver.