From: pjfarley AT banet DOT net (Peter J. Farley III)
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Subject: Re: Anyone have code to strip text from HP-PCL5 files?
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 01:39:17 GMT
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Boon van der RJ <rjvdboon AT sloep62 DOT cs DOT vu DOT nl> wrote:
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>I might be too simplistic, but maybe a 'strings yourPCLfile.pcl' does
>the trick well enough. (You might have tried it already of course) The
>HP-forum could be better ;-)

Thanks, Robert.  I did try "strings" (with and without the "-a"
option), and the text does get out, although it's accompanied by a lot
of "noise" from the binary data that happens to be characters.  Still,
it's better than dealing with all that binary stuff directly in an
editor.

I got no help from HP, unfortunately.  They haven't published a PCL6
tech reference yet, and that's where this "extension" to PCL is
defined, from what I've been able to find out so far.

Thanks again for your help.

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