🚀 go-pugleaf

On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 23:58:10 +0930, "Steve Pugh"
<stevepugh@optusnet.com.au> wrote:

>
>"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.

Yes.

>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.

Actually the DOS copy command, rather than a">" redirector.

In OrcadSDTv3.x, the hardcopy command offers the choice of LPT1: (with
whatever printer is defined as being there?) or "file".  There are no
further electives or modifiers for the file option, not even a
destination.

>This suggests that the prn file has been inscribed by a driver that either
>emulates Printer Control Language or was itself a HP driver.

I can't fault your logic.

My only residual query along your line of thinking is:
From what .prn file "formats" other than PCL5 (or PCLx for that
matter) would an HP5L interpret correctly for a schematic image?