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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, 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.

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Adrian Jansen           adrianqjanqsen@oqzemail.com.au
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budgie wrote in message <3d468d12.8609810@news.cantech.net.au>...
>On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 17:40:55 +1000, Matthew Kirkcaldie
><matthewk@mail.newcastle.edu.au> wrote:
>
>>In article <3d462aee.6010708@news.cantech.net.au>,
>> budgie@nowhere.cantech.net.au (budgie) wrote:
>>
>>> HP5L on LPT1: in DOS box under 98SE.
>>>
>>> Command spelled out exactly in O/P.
>>>
>>> Peter
>>
>>Wouldn't that produce a PCL 5 print file?
>
>HUH?
>
>The file was CREATED on another machine running Orcad SDT v3.x and
>using the command "hardcopy -> file.".
>
>I printed it on the above config using the command described
>previously - copy filename.prn LPT1:
>
>Why would the other machine with a DMP produce a PCL5 file?
>
>>I thought you had to have a
>>"P" in the name of a Hewlett Packard printer for it to be PostScript
>>compatible.
>>
>>So the file may contain PCL 5 data, not PostScript.
>
>Both appear academic speculations.