Bart:
xxx.pdf files are not compressed files, they are a file format
(from Adobe Acrobat) that retains formatting across platforms.
You can get them converted to xxx.txt files (without fancy fonts
or formatting) by sending them as an e-mail attachment to:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
If you have acess to Linux, you can download Acroread from
http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/alternate.htm. You'll
need linux-ar-40.tar.gz. But be forewarned, it is a monstrously
large file and you'll need the Unix/Linux gunzip and tar tools
to install it.
I think there are also Windoes versions to download (equally big
I expect). Acrobat Reader v 1.0 for DOS is around also, but it
is pretty dysfunctional since it cannot read the files created with
later versions (i.e., nearly everything).
Hope this helps.
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>That's the .pdf file I'd like to open. So far I tried winzip,
>arachne, midnight commander and netscape for linux on it, but apart from
>calling it a "portable data file", all failed.
>Does anyone know how to handle such files? ....
