Problem reading TA5?

[rambler]

Is anyone else having a problem reading TA5? While the other Traveller's Aides show up as zip compressed folders, this appears (once I've downloaded it) as a zip of a file of type "PL" and my Win 'XP doesn't have a clue how to open it. I'm unable to read or process either the "screen" or "print" versions.

Is there something else I need? Have I missed something obvious?

 

[sandman]

Originally posted by rambler:
Is anyone else having a problem reading TA5? While the other Traveller's Aides show up as zip compressed folders, this appears (once I've downloaded it) as a zip of a file of type "PL" and my Win 'XP doesn't have a clue how to open it. I'm unable to read or process either the "screen" or "print" versions.

Is there something else I need? Have I missed something obvious?

Tried renaming it .Zip? .pdf?

Load it up with wordpad and look up any intelligible text in the first page. pkzip means its a Zip etc...

Normally, there`s a readable signature in the files headers.

 

[hunter]

Originally posted by rambler:
Is anyone else having a problem reading TA5? While the other Traveller's Aides show up as zip compressed folders, this appears (once I've downloaded it) as a zip of a file of type "PL" and my Win 'XP doesn't have a clue how to open it. I'm unable to read or process either the "screen" or "print" versions.

Is there something else I need? Have I missed something obvious?

Just rename the file .zip instead of .pl. It should work fine then. Sounds like your browser isn't reading the header information from the server properly.

Hunter

 

[theSea]

I've had the same problem - what you're getting is the script page (.pl). If you have the option tell the browser to open it in place. You may have to cycle through this a few times before you get the .zip or .pdf but it *does* work... eventually. Downloading the .pl file (with whatever extention) will get you a *very* small file.

Hunter - something is seriously wonky (yes 'wonky' is a technical term <g>) in the download section - this happened to me downloading both the gateway pdf (for which you have my thanks!) and TA5. Fortunately I recognised the .pl as the scripted page (perl?) file extension and told the browser to run the thing.

Not whining - just hoping to contribute data for a fix.

GL HTH

--Michael