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Article #12001Re: Help: .PRN file from Orcad SDT
From: budgie
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 07:02
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 07:02
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On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 13:44:28 GMT, George Durbridge <gdurbrid@bigpond.net.au> wrote: >On Tue, 30 Jul 2002 12:59:20 GMT >budgie@nowhere.cantech.net.au (budgie) wrote: > >> 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? > >Well, it would produce a file containing printer commands >for the default printer at that location. As it happens, >your HP understood those commands when you sent the file to >it. Otherwise, it would have printed garbage. Agree that it understood the embedded commands (if any). Apart from PCL, what else could it be?
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