Yes, that works here too. The other way though should work for sure.
I've always had problems loading PDFs into browsers (admittedly on
dialup and on IE at the time). I tend to just wget things like that
anyway.. runs in the background so you dont have to think about it.

Craig

On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 12:15, Craig Ringer wrote:
> > I just did a wget
> > http://ahnews.music.salford.ac.uk/scribus/documentation/pdfs/ccic.pdf.gz
> > 
> > and then a gunzip and it worked. Opened up in Acrobat fine.
> > 
> > Gentoo Linux
> > Acrobat 5.0.8 July 18 2003
> > gunzip 1.3.3 (2002-03-08)
> 
> You should be able to just view the PDF in the window, despite the gzip 
> encoding - the server is sending the right MIME type, and the PDF just 
> gets transparently decompressed.
> 
> Craig Ringer
> 
> 


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