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To: John K who wrote (1181)	12/3/1997 1:49:00 AM
From: Chip Anderson	Respond to of 4056

I have not used QP so I am not familiar with how it works or the data formats it accepts. If you are a real geekhead, you could use a program like SED or PERL to automatically grock the symbols out of the .PRN file and put them into a format that QP can read directly - probably difficult to do this though. A somewhat less technical approach (although not very automated) is to read the PRN file into a spreadsheet program such as Excel. Excel will automatically split the text file into columns. You can then easily delete all of the columns except the ones with the symbols in it and save it back out as a TXT file that QP can hopefully read in. With a little extra effort you can make a spreadsheet macro to automate things. Unfortunately, I'll have to leave the actual steps up to you, the reader, because I can't test it out with QP and I don't know which spreadsheet program you'll be using. Hope this helps, Chip