I have been able to view .prn files as postscript (.ps) using gv. Now, I do not know if .prn files are really .ps files always, but you can give that a shot. If it is a postscript file, ps2ascii or pstotext should extract text from your file.
-K On Sun, 28 Mar 2004, at 5:32pm, Frank Roberts - SOTL wrote: > Hi All > > I would appreciate it if someone could explain to me what tools one may > use to convert MS dos .prn files whoses contents is all text to .txt > files so that these files may be used in my linux box and I may through > the Windows box out. > > Thanks > Frank > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
