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 01:57:50 GMT
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
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>If the file isn't one of those Binutils know about, you should generally 
>say "strings -a", otherwise some of the strings might not show.

Thanks, Eli.  I'm sure this isn't one of those that "strings" knows
about, but it was able to pull out all the text I'm interested in,
though with a lot of "noise" from all the binary data.

It did reduce the problem, though, so editing the result will be
easier than editing the original PCLXL file.

Thanks again.

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