Okay it did not puke this time, successful download, have the zip file
with same content. 

Richard C. Steffens wrote:
> Rich Shepard wrote:
>   
>>    It shows on the download window as a *.torrent file that is 10K on disk.
>> How does one get the actual .pdf from this?
>>   
>>     
> On my Ubuntu 8.04 machine, I followed the link in the e-mail, like the 
> rest of you, opening the page in Firefox. On that page, I clicked the 
> first download link (for the large version) and saw the torrent. It 
> looked like it was going to take awhile, so I went on to other e-mail. 
> When I was done, I found that there was a zip file on my desktop 
> (Gnome). I extracted that to the desktop. It's a directory named 
> linux_format_116. Inside that there's an index.html file and two 
> directories, images and pdfs. The index.html file is a table of contents 
> that links to the pdfs in the pdfs directory. There are 50 pdf files in 
> the directory pdfs.
>
> Now I need some time to read them!
>
>   
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