[opensuse] old dos .prn files
Right have some dos .prn files they are not text they appear to be binary in nature odes anyone have any idea how to open these i do not want to print them as that means the rescanning them. file 800XLT-1.PRN 800XLT-1.PRN: HP Printer Job Language data Ideas anyone please Pete . -- Powered by openSUSE 11.3 (x86_64) Kernel: 2.6.34.10-0.2-desktop KDE Development Platform: 4.6.00 (4.6.0) 08:12 up 3 days 13:42, 5 users, load average: 0.14, 0.09, 0.08 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 09/07/2011 02:16 AM, Peter Nikolic wrote:
Right
have some dos .prn files they are not text they appear to be binary in nature odes anyone have any idea how to open these i do not want to print them as that means the rescanning them.
file 800XLT-1.PRN 800XLT-1.PRN: HP Printer Job Language data
Ideas anyone please
Pete . You might try to use the Linux "dosbox" and issue the "PRINT" command with your file as an operand.
If memory serves, these are the old "print to disk" files done from the old DOS software. Regards, Duaine -- Duaine Hechler Piano, Player Piano, Pump Organ Tuning, Servicing& Rebuilding Reed Organ Society Member Florissant, MO 63034 (314) 838-5587 dahechler@att.net www.hechlerpianoandorgan.com -- Home& Business user of Linux - 11 years -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wednesday 07 September 2011 08:24:07 Duaine Hechler wrote:
On 09/07/2011 02:16 AM, Peter Nikolic wrote:
Right
have some dos .prn files they are not text they appear to be binary in nature odes anyone have any idea how to open these i do not want to print them as that means the rescanning them.
file 800XLT-1.PRN
800XLT-1.PRN: HP Printer Job Language data
Ideas anyone please
Pete .
You might try to use the Linux "dosbox" and issue the "PRINT" command with your file as an operand.
If memory serves, these are the old "print to disk" files done from the old DOS software.
Regards, Duaine
HUmmm . Thanks Duaine just one slight problem there it seems dosemu dont like my quad core Phenome II cpu drat. ERROR: Unknown CPU type! CONF: emulated CPU forced down to real CPU: 386 LOWRAM mmap: Invalid argument Segmentation fault bother .. Pete . -- Powered by openSUSE 11.3 (x86_64) Kernel: 2.6.34.10-0.2-desktop KDE Development Platform: 4.6.00 (4.6.0) 08:38 up 3 days 14:08, 5 users, load average: 0.19, 0.08, 0.07 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wednesday 07 September 2011 10:40:25 Peter Nikolic wrote:
On Wednesday 07 September 2011 08:24:07 Duaine Hechler wrote:
On 09/07/2011 02:16 AM, Peter Nikolic wrote:
Right
have some dos .prn files they are not text they appear to be binary in nature odes anyone have any idea how to open these i do not want to print them as that means the rescanning them.
file 800XLT-1.PRN
800XLT-1.PRN: HP Printer Job Language data
Ideas anyone please
Pete .
You might try to use the Linux "dosbox" and issue the "PRINT" command with your file as an operand.
If memory serves, these are the old "print to disk" files done from the old DOS software.
Regards, Duaine
HUmmm .
Thanks Duaine just one slight problem there it seems dosemu dont like my quad core Phenome II cpu drat.
ERROR: Unknown CPU type! CONF: emulated CPU forced down to real CPU: 386 LOWRAM mmap: Invalid argument Segmentation fault
bother .. Pete .
Why not install DOS on a small partition, and do this the DOS way? -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wednesday 07 September 2011 09:26:58 Stan Goodman wrote:
On Wednesday 07 September 2011 10:40:25 Peter Nikolic wrote:
On Wednesday 07 September 2011 08:24:07 Duaine Hechler wrote:
On 09/07/2011 02:16 AM, Peter Nikolic wrote:
Right
have some dos .prn files they are not text they appear to be binary in nature odes anyone have any idea how to open these i do not want to print them as that means the rescanning them.
file 800XLT-1.PRN
800XLT-1.PRN: HP Printer Job Language data
Ideas anyone please
Pete .
You might try to use the Linux "dosbox" and issue the "PRINT" command with your file as an operand.
If memory serves, these are the old "print to disk" files done from the old DOS software.
Regards, Duaine
HUmmm .
Thanks Duaine just one slight problem there it seems dosemu dont like my quad core Phenome II cpu drat.
ERROR: Unknown CPU type! CONF: emulated CPU forced down to real CPU: 386 LOWRAM mmap: Invalid argument Segmentation fault
bother .. Pete .
Why not install DOS on a small partition, and do this the DOS way?
Hi Stan dont want to faf around with disc partitions also the only thing you can do with it in dos is print it i dont want to print it i can do that easy enough i want to open view and save in a useable file format. but alas it seems M$ Corp has us stumped on this one Pete . -- Powered by openSUSE 11.3 (x86_64) Kernel: 2.6.34.10-0.2-desktop KDE Development Platform: 4.6.00 (4.6.0) 10:14 up 3 days 15:44, 5 users, load average: 0.18, 0.11, 0.11 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 2011/09/07 11:26 (GMT+0300) Stan Goodman composed:
Why not install DOS on a small partition, and do this the DOS way?
Lest we forget about this antique, "DOS" fits a floppy, thus can be booted and run from floppy if "installation" to a partition is problematic or unwanted. http://www.bootdisk.com/ -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Felix Miata
On 2011/09/07 11:26 (GMT+0300) Stan Goodman composed:
Why not install DOS on a small partition, and do this the DOS way?
Lest we forget about this antique, "DOS" fits a floppy, thus can be booted and run from floppy if "installation" to a partition is problematic or unwanted. http://www.bootdisk.com/
I'd try a virtulized machine first, I think. either virtualbox from oracle as a package or the more native xen kernel with opensuse. either should let you have pretty fine control over amount of memory and devices to present, although your OS might still have the same issue, not knowing what the specifics of the CPU are. -- Even the Magic 8 ball has an opinion on email clients: Outlook not so good. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wednesday 07 September 2011 14:13:47 Felix Miata wrote:
On 2011/09/07 11:26 (GMT+0300) Stan Goodman composed:
Why not install DOS on a small partition, and do this the DOS way?
Lest we forget about this antique, "DOS" fits a floppy, thus can be booted and run from floppy if "installation" to a partition is problematic or unwanted. http://www.bootdisk.com/
Ahhh yes but not got a floppy drive in the machine i would have to make a bootable cd or dvd pete . -- Powered by openSUSE 11.3 (x86_64) Kernel: 2.6.34.10-0.2-desktop KDE Development Platform: 4.6.00 (4.6.0) 18:06 up 3 days 23:36, 4 users, load average: 0.22, 0.18, 0.11 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Peter Nikolic wrote:
On Wednesday 07 September 2011 08:24:07 Duaine Hechler wrote:
On 09/07/2011 02:16 AM, Peter Nikolic wrote:
Right
have some dos .prn files they are not text they appear to be binary in nature odes anyone have any idea how to open these i do not want to print them as that means the rescanning them.
file 800XLT-1.PRN
800XLT-1.PRN: HP Printer Job Language data
Ideas anyone please
Pete .
You might try to use the Linux "dosbox" and issue the "PRINT" command with your file as an operand.
If memory serves, these are the old "print to disk" files done from the old DOS software.
Regards, Duaine
HUmmm .
Thanks Duaine just one slight problem there it seems dosemu dont like my quad core Phenome II cpu drat.
dosbox works very well on my phenom quad. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (18.1°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Wednesday 07 September 2011 14:50:10 Per Jessen wrote:
Peter Nikolic wrote:
On Wednesday 07 September 2011 08:24:07 Duaine Hechler wrote:
On 09/07/2011 02:16 AM, Peter Nikolic wrote:
Right
have some dos .prn files they are not text they appear to be binary in nature odes anyone have any idea how to open these i do not want to print them as that means the rescanning them.
file 800XLT-1.PRN
800XLT-1.PRN: HP Printer Job Language data
Ideas anyone please
Pete .
You might try to use the Linux "dosbox" and issue the "PRINT" command with your file as an operand.
If memory serves, these are the old "print to disk" files done from the old DOS software.
Regards, Duaine
HUmmm .
Thanks Duaine just one slight problem there it seems dosemu dont like my quad core Phenome II cpu drat.
dosbox works very well on my phenom quad. I'll have to give that a try see what goes
Pete . -- Powered by openSUSE 11.3 (x86_64) Kernel: 2.6.34.10-0.2-desktop KDE Development Platform: 4.6.00 (4.6.0) 18:05 up 3 days 23:35, 4 users, load average: 0.31, 0.18, 0.11 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Hi; On 09/07/2011 09:16 AM, Peter Nikolic wrote:
Right
have some dos .prn files they are not text they appear to be binary in nature odes anyone have any idea how to open these i do not want to print them as that means the rescanning them.
file 800XLT-1.PRN 800XLT-1.PRN: HP Printer Job Language data
Google suggests that renaming PRN extension to PS (PostScript) should work fine. Another option is http://www.magma.ca/~russrite/prnprint.html Regards. -- İsmail Dönmez - openSUSE Booster SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
I found a related thread here: http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=247913 Best regards, Johannes Am 07.09.11 09:16, schrieb Peter Nikolic:
Right
have some dos .prn files they are not text they appear to be binary in nature odes anyone have any idea how to open these i do not want to print them as that means the rescanning them.
file 800XLT-1.PRN 800XLT-1.PRN: HP Printer Job Language data
Ideas anyone please
Pete .
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On 9/7/2011 3:16 AM, Peter Nikolic wrote:
Right
have some dos .prn files they are not text they appear to be binary in nature odes anyone have any idea how to open these i do not want to print them as that means the rescanning them.
file 800XLT-1.PRN 800XLT-1.PRN: HP Printer Job Language data
Ideas anyone please
Pete .
.prn is not any specific type of data. _IF_ these are print jobs captured to file from old dos apps, then you have to know what kind of printer that app was printing to back when it was used. The data will be printer-specific. On the plus side the choices of printers and printer data formats were fewer and there was almost something like a few common standards back then. Usually either PCL (HP LaserJet) or Epson dot-matrix, or possibly PostScript. Today there are a zillion printers that all speak their own individual language and the actual print data that passes to the printer is meaningless garbage to any other printer or software. But back then, less so. Most dot-matrix printers from any manufacturer spoke some close variant of what the Epson MX spoke, or had an emulation mode which did exactly that. Most Laser printers spoke PCL and/or PostScript. Ink jets and non-PCL lasers from other manufacturers came along later and were only shipped with Windows & Mac drivers by then. If the application that wrote this was coded to print to a laserjet, then the data is PCL (HP LaserJet data, which can have both plain text with markup escape codes and binary blobs for raster images and soft fonts) You can use ghostpdl to read PCL data and output a PDF. Install ghostpdl http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/aljex/openSUSE_11.3/x86_64/g... then "pcl2pdf foo.prn foo.pdf" If the application were coded to print to a dot-matrix printer then it's probably Epspon / IBM Proprinter data which is usually 99% plain text with a few markup escape codes, but utterly different than PCL. There is such a thing as raster image data for dot-matrix but it's not too common since it would kill ink ribbons and print-heads and be noisy as hell. I don't know of any epson decoders off-hand, but the epson codes were so simple you could just ignore them and read the plain text, or probably a fairly simple awk script could translate them into html. But if you had this you would have known it and not said it looks like binary junk. You can also try running "file foo.prn" and see if the file magic util recognizes the data. (You might have to "zypper in file") If the data is PostScript the file command should recognize it and you could try renaming the file to foo.ps and just open it in gv or gimp or use ghostscript to output a pdf. If the file command doesn't recognize the data, and it's not PCL, and you can't tell from looking at the data directly, then you simply have to have some clue about the app that originally wrote it, or post the data here and maybe someone else can recognize something you don't. -- bkw -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 9/7/2011 12:16 AM, Peter Nikolic wrote:
Right
have some dos .prn files they are not text they appear to be binary in nature odes anyone have any idea how to open these i do not want to print them as that means the rescanning them.
file 800XLT-1.PRN 800XLT-1.PRN: HP Printer Job Language data
Ideas anyone please
Pete .
These are probably printer output destined for a laserjet. Simply copy them to the printer to see what they might be. (Need a raw queue so cups won't try to mess with them). They could be overlays (forms flashes) which tend to look like a boat load of PCL code or images printed to a file. There are PCL viewers available that will try to make sense of the file, Perhaps try http://openpcl.sourceforge.net/ -- _____________________________________ ---This space for rent--- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, 2011-09-07 at 08:16 +0100, Peter Nikolic wrote:
have some dos .prn files they are not text they appear to be binary in nature odes anyone have any idea how to open these i do not want to print them as that means the rescanning them.
file 800XLT-1.PRN 800XLT-1.PRN: HP Printer Job Language data
Ideas anyone please
Those files are not intended to be opened, but printed. Usually they are temporary and deleted right away. Not a Microsoft invention in any way. They are output of some msdos/windows (or even linux) program, intended to go directly to the printer, in this case, an HP printer. However, you may google and try to find an HP printer language interpreter. It may exist. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 11.4 x86_64 "Celadon" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk5xNSIACgkQtTMYHG2NR9VchgCbBwZ1kcRNpYqGwp5c7iEKl0EL NAQAniC/itJhFFW0OTuDS2LEd/vx+Aaw =dQJK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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