Date   : Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:26:00 +1030
From   : station240@... (paul aslin)
Subject: bbcdocs website problem

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> From: devries.bob@...
> To: bbc-micro@...; afra@...
> Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 09:46:07 +1000
> Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] 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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