[Diy_efi] Memory Sticks and WIN98SE

[Bill Washington]

Gents,
    You can install an aftermarket USB card if your hardware does not 
have a physical USB port, and download a (USB) driver from your memory 
stick manufacturer for WIN98SE.
Done it, works fine.
Bill

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> Subject:
> Re: [Diy_efi] Haltech Data Logging
> From:
> "Ben P" <benof1987 at hotmail.com>
> Date:
> Tue, 19 Sep 2006 23:10:51 +1000
> To:
> diy_efi at diy-efi.org
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> 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?).
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> 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...
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> however I still can't get the data to view in anything other than the 
> haltech program.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> any ideas/clues?
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> thanks
> Ben
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