On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Steve H wrote:

Straydog wrote:




I just moved the file to a different box with AR ver 5, which says it is
trying to repair the file, then bombs off with a subsequent message that
the damage could not be repaired.

Does this mean I need to try another big download?

Since I posted this the download speed from that site slowed to a crawl, It
should speed up in a day or two when everyone had downloaded everything on
the site.
I use Adobe reader V8 and had no problem reading any of the files. Yours was
probably corrupted due to the download server over loaded. Only takes a few
seconds to download on ADSL Max but it's a huge file on dial up.

Steve H


I went back to the website using Unix LYNX and downloaded a second copy
into my unix shell account root directory. This happend at 120 KB/sec, and
executed normally. Then I FTPed a copy of that file to my root directory
at a second Unix ISP (that happend at about 1 megabit/sec), and
downloaded, again, the file over my dialup (another 1 hr 20 mins [sorry,
I'm in the country and can't get anything but dialup, might someday look
into "wireless" since we have a nearby cell phone tower]), and the file
still geneates errors with AR 4 and 5.

Another guy said he could open the file with xPDF on his Linux box. I have
RH Linux 6.2 (probably the best distro in terms of hardware compatibility
with older hardware and low hardware spec needs) in an hda partition on my
same box with FAT-16/Win98SE partition, so downloaded a third copy of
tt4.pdf, used mtools to copy the file from the FAT-16 to the Linux
partition, and tried to open it with xPDF and it would not open (no error
messages, either).

I have an XP box (that I really hate to use) and am considering tring once
more (since it has whatever version of AR that needs XP) to read the file.

I can tell all you guys that not all hardware/software combinations work
100% right all the time. I've had successes with things that other people
failed at and vice-versa. I've also had reproducible problems of all
kinds. I have a copy of Excel2000 that will absolutely not install on one
of my Win98SE boxes, but installs fine on all other of my Win98SE boxes.
And, the Win98SE box that refuses to install Ex2000 will install
everything else I have and run all of everything else. I have lots of
these stories to tell. Even for Linux (and I've had every version of Red
Hat from 4.2 up to the workstation [Taroon]).