[plug] HOWTO PDFs

[Richard Sharpe]

At 10:03 AM 7/25/00 +0800, Steve Grasso wrote:
>Kevin,
>
>On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Shackleton, Kevin wrote:
>> I downloaded the 14 MB HOWTO tar.gz file from Linux.org, but the PDFs are
>> all damaged, according to Acrobat 3 or 4, in Windows.  Winzip didn't mind
>> unzipping the file though.  Is there a problem that Winzip doesn't
recognise
>> unzipping in Winzip rather than tar? I can't access a Linux machine until I
>> rebuild it :-(

Yesterday I received a zip file from Intel. WinZip churned away for a long
time and produced nothing. Rather, it created and empty file.

I then used unzip under Linux and all was OK.

>When shackled to Windows, I've never experienced any difficulty extracting
>gzipped/tarred archives using WinZip 7 or 8.
>
>Can't comment on Acrobat 3/4 inability to read the PDF's though, except to
say
>that when generating PDF's here, frequently we need to open them in Windows
>Acrobat and save them on top of themselves before they'll read reliably.
>
>Perhaps send me a (small) problem PDF and I'll try and read it here under
>Linux? At least confirm broken PDF or not.
>
>Steve
>
>

Regards
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Richard Sharpe, sharpe at ns.aus.com
Samba (Team member, www.samba.org), Ethereal (Team member, www.zing.org)
Contributing author, SAMS Teach Yourself Samba in 24 Hours
Author, Special Edition, Using Samba