FIRESTORM MANUAL

Post by **sirch345** » Sat Dec 04, 2004 11:36 pm

Not being a computer expert perhaps someone can help!
I downloaded the Firestorm workshop manual (now that at last i've forked for broadband) from on here, I downloaded it into "My Documents" but I can not open it. I downloaded it in pdf so what do I need to open it?
HELP CHRIS.

tony.wilde1 · Post by **tony.wilde1** » Sat Dec 04, 2004 11:42 pm

you need to get acrobat reader 6.0...it is free ok?

http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html

hope this helps.

Post by **sirch345** » Sun Dec 05, 2004 12:36 pm

Many thanks Tony for your reply.
I tried the Adobe reader this is what it said:-

Adobe Reader could not open '98-03_VTR1000F.pdf[1].gz' because it is either not a supported file type or because the file has been corruped (for example, it was sent as a email attachment and wasn't correctly decoded)

Cheers Chris.
PS where do I go from here?

Post by **kevg** » Sun Dec 05, 2004 1:34 pm

i could only suggest you tried downloading it again, it worked fine for me after i downloaded it, might want to look for acrobat updates as well, think they are up to about 6.02 now, but don't think its acrobat thats the problem, sounds like the origional file is incomplete.

mine is 104,979 Kb in size.

cupasoop · Post by **cupasoop** » Sun Dec 05, 2004 2:39 pm

sirch345 wrote:Many thanks Tony for your reply.
I tried the Adobe reader this is what it said:-

Adobe Reader could not open '98-03_VTR1000F.pdf[1].gz' because it is either not a supported file type or because the file has been corruped (for example, it was sent as a email attachment and wasn't correctly decoded)

Cheers Chris.
PS where do I go from here?

The .gz extention is means the file is compresed ( using something like winzip or similar). Something in the back of my mind is telling me that .gz is a unix file compression so it might not even work on a windows pc. Check where you downloaded it from and see if there's another version of the manual that would work on a windows (if thats what you have) pc. If your stuck, send me a pm and i'll see what i can sort out for you.

tony.wilde1 · Post by **tony.wilde1** » Sun Dec 05, 2004 4:37 pm

i got mine from here so it should be ok

ftp://bullet.uchicago.edu/pub/OUTgoing/shopManual/

Post by **kevg** » Sun Dec 05, 2004 7:20 pm

just had a look at the link tony put up there is a .gz and a .zip, you need the .zip one then use winzip to open it and adobe reader to view it.

Post by **sirch345** » Sun Dec 05, 2004 8:26 pm

Many thanks to all of you guys for your efforts, however it was Kev (Kevg) who actually hit the nail on the head, i'd been downloading the wrong version, so I downloaded it again in zip and Adobe then opened it without any more problems!
thanks once again
cheers Chris.

PS I think Cupasoop was nearly there!