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Author Topic: Help needed with old DOS program Fabrux Epic Member Member # 71 posted                       For the final lab report for one of my courses this term the prof requires us to make some plots in an old DOS program from 1994 called New Pet. The problem with the plots is that its very difficult to get them out of the program. I can send it to my printer, but sometimes they don't turn out right. I have the option of saving it to a PIC file, but nothing will open these files, saying they're corrupt in some way. IrfanView says its some other file and renames it as such, but still won't open it. For some strange reason the print screen button doesn't work. Any thoughts? I'm running XP Pro SP2. -------------------- I haul cardboard and cardboard accessories Registered: Mar 1999  |  IP: Logged Cartman just made by the Presbyterian Church Member # 256 posted                       Erh, well, .pic files can have roughly seven billion formats, but in your case it's probably just a PC-Paint bitmap (which was a popular package around '94), and can be opened with PMView and I-don't-know-what-else. -------------------- ".mirrorS arE morE fuN thaN televisioN" - TEH PNIK FLAMIGNO Registered: Nov 1999  |  IP: Logged Fabrux Epic Member Member # 71 posted                       PMView doesn't recognize the file format either. -------------------- I haul cardboard and cardboard accessories Registered: Mar 1999  |  IP: Logged Cartman just made by the Presbyterian Church Member # 256 posted                       OK, mail one of those files to me (or upload it somewhere and give me the URL), and I'll see what I can do. -------------------- ".mirrorS arE morE fuN thaN televisioN" - TEH PNIK FLAMIGNO Registered: Nov 1999  |  IP: Logged Charles Capps We appreciate your concern. It is noted and stupid. Member # 9 posted                       Do the plots display on screen? Can you run it in a Windows DOS box? If so, you can hit printscreen from outside the app to create a screencap... Registered: Mar 1999  |  IP: Logged Fabrux Epic Member Member # 71 posted                       I run the program in a Windows DOS box, but when it plots it goes into fullscreen mode. If I hit printscreen, nothing gets to the clipboard. When I hit alt+enter, the program goes back to a different screen. -------------------- I haul cardboard and cardboard accessories Registered: Mar 1999  |  IP: Logged Omega Some other beginning's end Member # 91 posted                       Got a camera? If you can print, there are programs out there that will allow you to create .pdfs by simulating a printer. You print, but it ends up in an Acrobat file instead of on paper. Once it's in Acrobat, you might have better luck getting a screengrab. -------------------- "This is why you people think I'm so unknowable. You don't listen!" - God, "God, the Devil and Bob" Registered: Mar 1999  |  IP: Logged Fabrux Epic Member Member # 71 posted                       I tried setting Adobe PDF as my default printer but it didn't work. -------------------- I haul cardboard and cardboard accessories Registered: Mar 1999  |  IP: Logged

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