Sorry the issue is not clear to me.
The basic issue is that I have 640 MD of with 778,364 entries of 10 year old
text data stores in a .nfo files which is not a text file and can not be
opened in usable format as text nor did 18 hours of OO conversion open the
file. A text editor opens it in seconds but gives garbage.
Of the 778,364 entries only approximate 17,000 are of immediate interest so
there is immediately a big reduction in the quantity of data.
Now this data can be converted to a windows .prn file and saved to disk or it
can be transfered directly to file at 200 entries per file which for the
17,000 entries means 90 files. Reassembly is easy; editing is a bitch as the
data format is not consistant.
Transferring the data directly was the first course of action but then I found
that what appeared on the screen is not what is transferred critical
components are left out while what prints is what is on the screen. Entering
the missing data by hand is impossible. I calculated about 2 months of work
for data entry alone not including other modifications required for usage.
So the initial idea when I made the original post was to install a printer
which was in effect a program that would automatically convert the data data
to text. Well if such program exist it will have to be installed on my
computer not on the office computer. Now since my computer is a dual boot
then that opens a few other possibilities.
Is there a linux or windows program that will convert .prn text files to text?
Or can anybody suggest a bether method.
Thanks
Frank
On Sunday 28 March 2004 07:50, Caleb Rodriguez wrote:
> Frank,
> Please explain your problem and what you are trying to do.
> Thanks
>
> Frank Roberts - SOTL wrote:
> >Hi All
> >
> >On the bad side I know this post is not about Linux it is about that other
> >operating system but I am trying to substract the data from "that other
> >operating system" and place the date in a usable format in Linux and of
> >course I am lost - again. So please no flame jobs.
> >
> >Does anyone know of a program that will act as a printer in MS Windows?
> >The idea is to print the data to a program which is in reality a converter
> >that will place the data in test format in a file so that it can then be
> > read into Open Office.
> >
> >Thanks
> >Frank
> >
> >
> >
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