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From: Malcolm Austen <>
Subject: Re: [SOG] PAF download .pdf!
Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 13:06:53 +0000 (GMT)

On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Pickard Trepess - Hunimex wrote:

+ I managed to download and use PAF4 without problems, but the document file
+ the LDS posted as a pdf file was actually downloaded with the extension
+ .pdf! (including the !) when I found this in the temp internet folder, I
+ just copied it to another directory and renamed it as a .pdf file and it
+ works fine

Looks like they've fixed the page, and their fingers ... in the HTML the
filename is followed by a (closing) double quote, I guess at the time you
downloaded <shift-2> (") had been swapped for a <shift-1> (!), many
browsers would survive the syntax error.

Happy Ancestor Hunting,
Malcolm
- born&bred in Thanet, Kent; now living in Oxfordshire
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~malcol

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