, on 11/30/06
at 09:44 PM, ggranat@earthlink.net said:
>I have a need to extract text in plain ASCII format from a proprietary
>database.
Inquiring minds would like to know which one.
>The utilities provided with the application which should let me do
>this aren't working and the company that wrote the application no longer
>exists.
Define not working. Perhaps they can be made to work.
>I would like to "print" the text from the database to a file.
Print how? Using the database's report writer tool?
>I've tried
>installing a couple of drivers (IBMNULL and an Epson matrix printer) but
>the resulting files don't come out as plain ASCII. Any suggestions on a
>driver to install to get from here to there?
GUI printer drivers by definition do not print raw text. Does the app
allow you to print to LPT1? This might give you raw text, depending on
the app.
Regards,
Steven
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