[Diy_efi] Haltech Data Logging

Tue Sep 19 13:10:51 UTC 2006

well taking a screenshot of the data logging process in windows XP results 
in all of the data coming out in words (with the simple DOS borders coming 
out like ASCII art). I have since discovered that highlighting all of the 
'picture' in microsoft word, converting it into a monospace text (courier 
new), and changing the size to 8 point (i think thats it anyway) results in 
an ASCII picture, with all relevant data in the appropriate columns. However 
taking a shot of anything with real graphics (like the bar graph tuning 
screen on haltech units) results in meaningless mumbo jumbo (same characters 
as opening the datalog files in text, maybe a link here?).

Taking a screenshot in Windows 98 however results in a normal screenshot (i 
believe this is because windows XP runs a dos emulator in windows, rather 
than a visual version of dos, as 98 does). This really sucks because 98 
can't use memory sticks, and the computer hooked up to the dyno doesnt have 
a cd burner. So i have to put it on floppy, which is a long forgotten (for 
good reason) art...

however I still can't get the data to view in anything other than the 
haltech program.

Is it possible to tell a dos program to 'print' to a .txt file instead of 
the actual printer? as this would allow me to select the relevant data and 
put it into a word document for ease of viewing.

Tomorow I will have a shot at hotwiring DOS on the 98 machine to open the 
datalog file in its own text viewer, maybe that will come up with something.

any ideas/clues?

thanks
Ben

>From: "Lee M. Lemoine" <llemoine at gmail.com>
>Reply-To: diy_efi at diy-efi.org
>To: diy_efi at diy-efi.org
>Subject: Re: [Diy_efi] Haltech Data Logging
>Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 07:16:46 -0400
>
>Hmm, i never really tried exporting stuff from my haltech.  I know that you
>can save the documents and review them in the software.  when you say it
>prints things out in word form, do you mean plaintext or a simulated font
>(Postscript)  ?    If its just doing a text dump in a standard dot matrix
>(80 columns wide)  i'm pretty sure you can find dos programs that run "TSR"
>(Terminate Stay Resident)  which will basically capture all the data sent 
>to
>a specific com port and put it into a file --   but if it uses post script
>i'm not sure how useful that'd be...    It's worth a shot, it'd be on a dos
>freeware site.
>
>You'd simply just run that program, then it'll exit back to the dos prompt
>--  then you run your haltech software.
>
>if you can't find anything let me know later on, i'll look for you -- gotta
>head to work here unfortunately though.
>
>-- Lee
>(haltech E6GM)
>
>On 9/18/06, Ben P <benof1987 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>Now i know its not DIY, but it still has something to do with cheap fuel
>>injection.
>>
>>The problem is that I have a Haltech E5, and it does datalogging. And I
>>can't view the data logs in anything but the haltech program, unless I
>>print
>>out all 140 pages of data, and type it up into Excel. As you can see, that
>>is not an option.
>>
>>And because the haltech program is in MSDOS, taking a screenshot doesnt
>>get
>>me anywhere. (it comes out with the data in word form, not a picture, but
>>it
>>comes in unorganised streams, which makes it less useful).
>>
>>Can anyone think of a fix for this?
>>
>>thanks
>>Ben
>>
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