[Diy_efi] Haltech Data Logging

[Bill - Comcast]

Data that is printed to the screen.

Bill

Ben P wrote:
>
> so what does that print to the text file? The data that it saves, 
> displays, or everything that the program 'sees'?
>
>> From: Bill - Comcast <b.shaw at comcast.net>
>> Reply-To: diy_efi at diy-efi.org
>> To: diy_efi at diy-efi.org
>> Subject: Re: [Diy_efi] Haltech Data Logging
>> Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 09:21:00 -0400
>>
>> Can you pipe the output to a text file?
>>
>> If your program's name is haltech.exe and you want the data to end up 
>> in a file called test1.txt,  try a command line like this....
>>
>> haltech > test1.txt
>>
>> hth,
>>
>> Bill
>>
>> Ben P wrote:
>>> 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