From:	Boon van der RJ <rjvdboon AT sloep62 DOT cs DOT vu DOT nl>
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Subject:	Re: Anyone have code to strip text from HP-PCL5 files?
Date:	19 Oct 1998 13:20:57 GMT
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In comp.os.msdos.djgpp Peter J. Farley III <pjfarley AT banet DOT net> wrote:
> I can see the text I want to extract when I browse the file, but there
> is a *LOT* of binary stuff and what looks like font information in
> between chunks of text.
> I guess I'll go to one of the HP forums and ask around there.
> Thanks again for your code.  It may well come in handy one day!

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 ;-)

bye now,
 Robert

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