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Re: .PRN file from Orcad SDT

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From: berdpee
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 23:20
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Hello Pete,

Most .PRN files I have seen have been bit image files, never heard of
a "binary postscript file" . Postscript was something I worked with on
the KL-10, since then nothing. IIRC we had a postscript plotter in the
terminal room.

Rolie.

On Mon, 29 Jul 2002 17:12:36 +0100, "Adam Cox"
<adam.cox@uk.thalesdefence.com> wrote:

>This file is a binary postscript file. You will need a postscript reader in
>order to view the file contents.
>
>"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
>
>

aeolus
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Subject: Re: .PRN file from Orcad SDT
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