[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > FYO - I had no trouble getting it before your update, now the download > times out before finishing.
Karl has informed me offline that this problem disappeared as mysteriously as it came (ain't that typical of the web!), but if anyone else has a problem with this file or anything else on the TCRP and tclocal.org sites, please let me know. Helpful tip: PDF is a pig of a format over the internet if you try to view it through your web browser. Partly this is because of the PDF browser plug-in (this is the gizmo that actually steps in to show you the file if you just click on the URL) and partly, I suspect, because of interactions between your browser and the system that's serving the file out to you. Even when everything goes well, you don't get the same functionality from the plug-in that you do from the file if you just download it to your machine and then open it up in the Acrobat viewer. Consequently, I hardly ever read PDF files right in my browser; I download them first. Here's how to do that using Mozilla Firefox (if you're using the Virus from Redmond, aka Internet Explorer, you've got bigger potential problems than viewing PDF files, but something like this should work for you, too). Let's say that you see the following URL in someone's message: http://ibiblio.org/tcrp/pres/tcrp-intro.pdf Do NOT click (or double-click) on it using your LEFT mouse button. Instead: 1. RIGHT-click on the URL (using your right-hand mouse button). 2. Select "Save Link Target." 3. Navigate to some handy directory (folder) where you can find this file later. 4. Hit "Save." 5. Wait till the file has finished downloading. Depending on the size of the file, this can take anywhere from a few seconds to a long, long time, but however long it takes, you can do something else while you're waiting. Downloading a file this way should *never* time out, even over a slow dialup line. 6. Once the file has finished downloading, go to that directory and (double-)click on the file. If you've got the Acrobat reader installed, the thing should open up almost instantly, and you'll get much better functionality, too. Jon _______________________________________________ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
