Date   : Thu, 29 Jul 2010 00:04:41 +0100
From   : mark@... (Mark Usher)
Subject: [OT] bbcdocs website problem

> First try failed:
> http://www.bbcdocs.com/filebase/hardware/circuit/BBC_Master_Schematics
> 
> Missing ".pdf"?

Yup, fixed.

> Also:
>    Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to
>    use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
> Second try:
> 
> http://www.bbcdocs.com/filebase/econet/Econet%20Advanced%20User%20Guide
> .pdf
> 
> Worked okay.
> Ooooh, typeset, not a scan. Sweet!

Yes, many of them are. If not, many will have an OCR layer behind the images
so are still searchable. That's why I have left them as pdf files on the
server so that search engines can hopefully start linking to them.

 
> Third try:
>    http://www.bbcdocs.com/filebase/hardware/datasheets/WD177x.pdf
> 
> Retrieved okay, but the PDF appears damaged - I see the lower left
> corner of the document zoomed up to fill the page.


Well that is just the document as it was contributed.

 
 
> Well, PDFs appear to be working for me, now.
Excellent news.

 
> Two suggestions, however...
> 
> 1. Make clicking the logo go to the home page. It's a convention. I
> only
> looked for the "Home" link when clicking the logo didn't work.

Done.


 
> 2. Your latest news item says:
> --8<--------
> Tim Harrison has scanned in the Master 128 Schematic and Hugh Vance has
> been busy donating the Slogger Electron RX and Master Peartree RAM/ROM
> cartridge instructions. Shaun Buckley has also made a contribution with
> a revised edition of the Solidisk EPROM programmer that contains some
> of
> the revised commands.
> --8<--------
 
> This would be more user friendly if the things mentioned linked to
> them,

Done too.

> 
> Oh, and if you want a scan of the Econet Design and Installation
> Guide...
>    http://www.heyrick.co.uk/econet/edaig.pdf


Think it is already there isn't it....

-Mark