Date   : Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:04:14 +1000
From   : devries.bob@... (Bob Devries)
Subject: bbcdocs website problem

Hi Paul,

Even when I right-click on the link, and select "save target as", it still
won't download. I get an error message which tells me that IE can't open
the website. I'd guess this is an IE issue, not an acrobat reader issue.

Regards, Bob Devries

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: paul aslin 
  To: bbc-micro@... 
  Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 11:56 AM
  Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] bbcdocs website problem




  I recommend "PDF-XChange Viewer", free from http://www.tracker-software.com/product/downloads

  Unlike the Adobe PDF viewer this one doesn't lockup, crash and get owned
by viruses. Use the save button in the program to save a copy of the file
to your hard drive.

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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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