Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 08:53:09 -0700 From: Joel Mc Graw <jpmcgraw1@home.com> To: Steve the teco <steve@red.hot.net.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: removing escape chr (printer) Message-ID: <3A1D3D65.7A93451@home.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1001123135019.60958D-100000@red.hot.net.au>
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Steve the teco wrote: > > Hi All, > > I have about 200 files to convert to plain text or better still html. > > The problem is the text is full of printer codes > <SNIP> > ^[^[&a8R^[^[&f0S^[^[&a4C^[^[&f0S^[*c2221A^[*c95B^[*c15G^[*c2P^[*c4A^[*c1852B^[*c0P^[*c2221A^[*c4B^[*c0P^[*p+59Y^[*p > +200X^[^[(s0p10h0s3b4099TPROJECT > COST^[*p+330X^[*p-20Y^[^[(s0p17h0s3b4099T1999^[*p+40Y^[*p-85XActual^[*p-40Y^[*p+70 > X2000^[*p+40Y^[*p-89XBudget^[*p-40Y^[^[&f0S > </SNIP> > > Do I need a port or something to clean up this mess. > > hope someone can help. > > Thanks for your time. > > Steve Hutson. > Steve, These appear to be PCL codes--which is HP's printer control language (kinda like PostScript). Notice that they appear to always begin with an escape character and end with a capital letter. Using this info, writing a program/script to remove the codes should be fairly trivial. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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