All,
For a (hopefully) quick setup problem investigation I need to take a look at some binary HPGL files to see what they are saying to my DGI plotter to make it so angry. While there are thousands of viewers to display the picture, I'd like something that just reads binary HPGL and writes or displays ASCII HPGL as text.
Does anyone know of such a utility? Writing one sounds fun but even this setup problem just doesn't fit in my schedule right now.
I'm puzzled by this "binary HPGL". Always thought HPGL -had- to be ASCII numeric text and two char command strings. Indeed, the ascii ";" character is critical.
There is also a binary format that presumably maps from&to the ASCII but uses binary tokens for tags and commands and binary integers for the values. It generates significantly smaller files but sacrifices readability.
I imagine the format description is available but haven't really looked for it, since that would tempt me even more to spend/waste time on writing a translator.
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