Greg, I experienced the same thing that you did. The .DOC file is 189,952 bytes long and I halted the second download at about 17K. Even at that, it listed over 100 books for sale.
If you want to read almost all of the file, halt transfer as it approaches 189,900 bytes, save it (F2) to an 8.3 filename, and read it with any text reader. It is mostly text, with very little formatting. HTH Roger Turk Tucson, Arizona Greg Mayman wrote: . > Hi List buddies. . > I'm having trouble with downloading this file . > http://www.natrailmuseum.org.au/news/SH_Book_Sale.doc . > which I am assured is a standard word document. But when Arachne . > downloads it, it then gives me the DOS error message "Bad command or . > filename" and starts downloading it again. . > The webmaster says that he has no trouble with it using IE or Opera, . > naturally both are running under a late version of Windoze. . > I suspect the file is trying to start MS-Word, which of course i don't . > have on my computer. . > If anyone else can download it successfully, I'd be pleased to know the . > secret, and also what they find in the beginning of the file. . > Thanks to all.
