Date   : Tue, 27 Jul 2010 09:46:07 +1000
From   : devries.bob@... (Bob Devries)
Subject: bbcdocs website problem

Hi Phill,
I followed your directions, and found the Welcome.pdf file, but I still 
can't download it :(

I know WinXP and IE6 are not the greatest, but I absolutely loathe Windows 
7, and since I'm running on fairly old hardware, I at least have a stable 
arrangement.

Regards, Bob Devries

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Phill Harvey-Smith
  To: bbc-micro@...
  Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 9:14 AM
  Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] bbcdocs website problem


  Bob Devries wrote:
  > Hi all,

  Hi Bob,

  > I seem to be having a problem grabbing files from the BBC DOCS
  > (www.bbcdocs.com) website. I click on a link and it starts to load the 
(PDF)
  > file, but then stops, and finally errors out.
  >
  > As an example, the BBC Welcome booklet file gets to 11kB, and finally 
errors
  > out. I'm using IE6 and Acrobat reader 9 on WinXP Pro SP2.

  You do of course realise that IE6 and XP SP2 are ancient and very
  vulnarable ?

  > Oddly enough, the thumbnail link shows as:
  > File:////D:/Beeb/bbcdocs.com/filebase/essentials/Welcome.pdf
  > It does, however, show the thumbnail correctly.
  >
  > The file's link is: 
http://www.bbcdocs.com/filebase/essentials/Welcome.pdf

  Humm 404 error here with Firefox 3.5.11, and XP SP3, so looks like that
  file is linked wrongly / missing....

  However I was able to download the BBC user guide and Advanced user
  guide without problems.

  Humm there's deffo something odd going on, I took the liink to the
  advanced user guide and pasted it into firefox, and removed the filename
  :-

  http://www.bbcdocs.com/filebase/essentials/

  I then clicked onto the atom directory and then on parent directory
  (from the atom one), and came back up somewhere else with many more
  files.....guess someone's got their links in a twist :(

  The Welcome.pdf is there and I was able to successfully download it.

  Cheers.

  Phill.

  -- 
  Phill Harvey-Smith, Programmer, Hardware hacker, and general eccentric !

  "You can twist perceptions, but reality won't budge" -- Rush.

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