R Shapp wrote:

>
> Hi Bill,
>
> Many thanks to you and Walt Bodley for the updated manual. I can read it fine
> online, but I'd like to be able to download it to my PC. The "Save" and "Save
> As..." options on my File menu are grayed out, but the Print option is active.
> I would much prefer the electronic medium rather than the printed one. Any
> help?

There are a few things you can do:

1. Try to, instead of loading the document in Acrobat reader, instead
right
click the link and select "Save link as" and then specify a file name
and
location on your disk.

2. Update your Acrobat Reader to a newer version, which does allow you
to
save the document you're looking at.

3. Get the freeware and opensource cRUL at http://curl.haxx.se/
With cURL you can download any URL to your computer (not just http:
URL's).
In this particular case, you'd invoke cURL with this command line

curl http://home.gwi.net/~pluto/g8manual.pdf > g8manual.pdf

and then the pdf file will be stored in the current directory (you can
of course also specify any path name for your output file). This method
can of course also be used for any other type of file as well, for
instance
sound and video files, and of course also regular html files.




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