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A .PRN file is just a Windows "print to file"-format file. It isn't
necessarily formatted as Postscript, depends on what printer was selected
when the print was done. A specific printer interface would be required to
read it.As the OP says, this is unsuitable for 'digestion' elsewhere.

Ken

<berdpee@ami.com.au> wrote in message
news:3d45ccd6.1974794@news.ami.com.au...
> 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