"save as"

[John Larkin]

OK, I want to save an AD8221 datasheet, so Analog Devices provides the
"save as" file name as...


597695969332879224376031AD8221_a.pdf


I guess I should be grateful that "AD8221" appears somewhere in the
string at all.

Snarl,

John

 

[Jim Thompson]

On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 16:01:07 -0700, John Larkin
<jjlarkin@highSNIPlandTHIStechPLEASEnology.com> wrote:

OK, I want to save an AD8221 datasheet, so Analog Devices provides the
"save as" file name as...


597695969332879224376031AD8221_a.pdf


I guess I should be grateful that "AD8221" appears somewhere in the
string at all.

Snarl,

John

Those leading digits are probably YOUR tracking number ;-)

...Jim Thompson
--
| James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens |
| Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| Phoenix, Arizona Voice480)460-2350 | |
| E-mail Address at Website Fax480)460-2142 | Brass Rat |
| http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |

I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

 

[John Larkin]

On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 16:02:53 -0700, Jim Thompson
<thegreatone@example.com> wrote:

On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 16:01:07 -0700, John Larkin
jjlarkin@highSNIPlandTHIStechPLEASEnology.com> wrote:

OK, I want to save an AD8221 datasheet, so Analog Devices provides the
"save as" file name as...


597695969332879224376031AD8221_a.pdf


I guess I should be grateful that "AD8221" appears somewhere in the
string at all.

Snarl,

John



Those leading digits are probably YOUR tracking number ;-)

...Jim Thompson

Wow, do that have that many customers?

John

 

[Active8]

On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 16:10:53 -0700, John Larkin wrote:

On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 16:02:53 -0700, Jim Thompson
thegreatone@example.com> wrote:

On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 16:01:07 -0700, John Larkin
jjlarkin@highSNIPlandTHIStechPLEASEnology.com> wrote:

OK, I want to save an AD8221 datasheet, so Analog Devices provides the
"save as" file name as...


597695969332879224376031AD8221_a.pdf


I guess I should be grateful that "AD8221" appears somewhere in the
string at all.

Snarl,

John



Those leading digits are probably YOUR tracking number ;-)

...Jim Thompson

Wow, do that have that many customers?

John

That is an unusual number. I think a tracking number would be more
along the lines of a UUID, but you never know what/how they coded
that one. I've seen sites with directories named with UUIDs used to
store documents and/or images for a given topic and of course the
documents themselves may be coded with a number index so that the
info can be found in a database later, say if the part number
changed after a merger or whatever.

Anyway, if this helps, when I find one that doesn't have the part
number, I just tack it on with a description and underscores so that
later, I can still use the original document name to search for it -
revisions, etc. In this case, I'd just copy the part munber to the
front of that long filename and stick an underscore in there to make
it easier to find later.
--
Best Regards,
Mike

 

[Paul Hovnanian P.E.]

Jim Thompson wrote:

On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 16:01:07 -0700, John Larkin
jjlarkin@highSNIPlandTHIStechPLEASEnology.com> wrote:

OK, I want to save an AD8221 datasheet, so Analog Devices provides the
"save as" file name as...


597695969332879224376031AD8221_a.pdf


I guess I should be grateful that "AD8221" appears somewhere in the
string at all.

Snarl,

John



Those leading digits are probably YOUR tracking number ;-)

Or the price. ;-)

--
Paul Hovnanian mailtoaul@Hovnanian.com
note to spammers: a Washington State resident
------------------------------------------------------------------
Entropy: When your shoelace comes untied, you can't fix it
by walking backwards.

 

[John Larkin]

On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 18:45:21 -0700, "Paul Hovnanian P.E."
<Paul@Hovnanian.com> wrote:

Jim Thompson wrote:

On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 16:01:07 -0700, John Larkin
jjlarkin@highSNIPlandTHIStechPLEASEnology.com> wrote:

OK, I want to save an AD8221 datasheet, so Analog Devices provides the
"save as" file name as...


597695969332879224376031AD8221_a.pdf


I guess I should be grateful that "AD8221" appears somewhere in the
string at all.

Snarl,

John



Those leading digits are probably YOUR tracking number ;-)

Or the price. ;-)

Or the delivery date.

John

 

[Glenn Gundlach]

John Larkin <jjlarkin@highSNIPlandTHIStechPLEASEnology.com> wrote in message news:<mcpt805h4pt8tj52193ajpsbthtj80hv10@4ax.com>...

OK, I want to save an AD8221 datasheet, so Analog Devices provides the
"save as" file name as...


597695969332879224376031AD8221_a.pdf


I guess I should be grateful that "AD8221" appears somewhere in the
string at all.

Snarl,

John

Just curious. What browser? I just looked up an AD81i I loaded a while
back and it too has a long file name. That was done using Opera
calling Acrobat 4. I just tried using IE6 also calling Acrobat 4. This
time the 'save as' filename was listed as '*.pdf' but the address bar
contained what you typed.
GG

 

[Paul Burke]

John Larkin wrote:

OK, I want to save an AD8221 datasheet, so Analog Devices provides the
"save as" file name as...


597695969332879224376031AD8221_a.pdf


I guess I should be grateful that "AD8221" appears somewhere in the
string at all.

Snarl,

Yes, a lot of PDFs from other companies have some random, perhaps
internally- significant title. But it's easy to edit the name (at least
with Mozilla it is) before you save it.

What bugs me is that I can't find a way of making Mozilla ask me if I
want to view or save a file before opening it- at least with PDFs, I
always have to check where the link is going before clicking. Netscape
always had such a setting, so does Mozilla (in preferences) but it makes
no difference.

Paul Burke

 

[Tim Mitchell]

In article <c6nl5t$d2j26$1@ID-128611.news.uni-berlin.de>, Paul Burke
<paul@scazon.com> writes

John Larkin wrote:
OK, I want to save an AD8221 datasheet, so Analog Devices provides the
"save as" file name as...
597695969332879224376031AD8221_a.pdf
I guess I should be grateful that "AD8221" appears somewhere in the
string at all.
Snarl,



Yes, a lot of PDFs from other companies have some random, perhaps
internally- significant title. But it's easy to edit the name (at least
with Mozilla it is) before you save it.

What bugs me is that I can't find a way of making Mozilla ask me if I
want to view or save a file before opening it- at least with PDFs, I
always have to check where the link is going before clicking. Netscape
always had such a setting, so does Mozilla (in preferences) but it
makes no difference.

I think this is an Acrobat problem (assuming you are using acrobat). I

have got "view PDFs in browser" turned off in Acrobat but it still
persists in opening them in the browser window.
--
Tim Mitchell

 

[Grog]

"John Larkin" <jjlarkin@highlandSNIPtechTHISnologyPLEASE.com> wrote in
message news:icbu8050v8aj12hjlst6pqouersdslg43f@4ax.com...

On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 18:45:21 -0700, "Paul Hovnanian P.E."
Paul@Hovnanian.com> wrote:

Jim Thompson wrote:

On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 16:01:07 -0700, John Larkin
jjlarkin@highSNIPlandTHIStechPLEASEnology.com> wrote:

OK, I want to save an AD8221 datasheet, so Analog Devices provides the
"save as" file name as...


597695969332879224376031AD8221_a.pdf


I guess I should be grateful that "AD8221" appears somewhere in the
string at all.

Snarl,

John



Those leading digits are probably YOUR tracking number ;-)

Or the price. ;-)

Or the delivery date.

Nope... that's the MOQ.

GtG

 

[EEng]

On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 16:01:07 -0700, John Larkin
<jjlarkin@highSNIPlandTHIStechPLEASEnology.com> wrote:

OK, I want to save an AD8221 datasheet, so Analog Devices provides the
"save as" file name as...


597695969332879224376031AD8221_a.pdf


I guess I should be grateful that "AD8221" appears somewhere in the
string at all.

Snarl,

John


John, the file name may be as you stated above, but that doesn't mean

that's the name you have to save it as. When downloading pdf, and
selecting "save as", just rename the file right then and there
(keeping the pdf extension), and that is how it will be named when
downloaded on your HD.

 

[legg]

On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 11:34:13 +0100, Tim Mitchell
<timng@sabretechnology.co.uk> wrote:

What bugs me is that I can't find a way of making Mozilla ask me if I
want to view or save a file before opening it- at least with PDFs, I
always have to check where the link is going before clicking. Netscape
always had such a setting, so does Mozilla (in preferences) but it
makes no difference.

I think this is an Acrobat problem (assuming you are using acrobat). I
have got "view PDFs in browser" turned off in Acrobat but it still
persists in opening them in the browser window.

The same problem started to occur only recently on this machine using
either Netscape or Mozilla.

It turns out that searching was being performed via google.ca, vs
google.com. Every document retrieval was a redirect requiring viwing.
Attempts to correct this address linkage failed repeatedly.(type in
..com - get .ca)

Only way I found to get around it was to start a search using an old
search page window ( ie page 16 of an old search - saved prior to the
switch in linkage) with the new parameters entered - this resulted in
normal operation and documents saved without required viewing.

I assumed this forcible redirection was a new policy from Google,
encoded in their cookies, possibly to decentralize web traffic from
the main site.

I always copy the real title (and author and original source/date
where possible) and paste into the 'save as' window, with the
appropriate file extension. This can be corrected or abbreviated
later.

RL

 

[Ben Bradley]

In sci.electronics.design, EEng <nunyabiz@budget.net> wrote:

On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 16:01:07 -0700, John Larkin
jjlarkin@highSNIPlandTHIStechPLEASEnology.com> wrote:

OK, I want to save an AD8221 datasheet, so Analog Devices provides the
"save as" file name as...


597695969332879224376031AD8221_a.pdf


I guess I should be grateful that "AD8221" appears somewhere in the
string at all.

Snarl,

John


John, the file name may be as you stated above, but that doesn't mean
that's the name you have to save it as. When downloading pdf, and
selecting "save as", just rename the file right then and there
(keeping the pdf extension), and that is how it will be named when
downloaded on your HD.

I'm sure John knows he can do that, but that's an extra step that
prompted the original "why can't they just send the file with the main
part number that appears at the top of the data sheet" post.
TI used to have all these "spru1234" filenames as their "document
numbers" whether for TTL data sheets or for DSP compiler manuals, and
I never saw anything that said what the letter sequence meant. It all
gave a strange feeling that TI's filing system was based on a legacy
computer system with an 8-character-max filename convention.
But now TI sends the filename as just the actual part number, just
like you would expect! Amazing! Maybe it's time to buy TI stock.

 

[John Larkin]

On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 15:28:06 -0400, Ben Bradley
<ben_nospam_bradley@mindspring.example.com> wrote:

In sci.electronics.design, EEng <nunyabiz@budget.net> wrote:

On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 16:01:07 -0700, John Larkin
jjlarkin@highSNIPlandTHIStechPLEASEnology.com> wrote:

OK, I want to save an AD8221 datasheet, so Analog Devices provides the
"save as" file name as...


597695969332879224376031AD8221_a.pdf


I guess I should be grateful that "AD8221" appears somewhere in the
string at all.

Snarl,

John


John, the file name may be as you stated above, but that doesn't mean
that's the name you have to save it as. When downloading pdf, and
selecting "save as", just rename the file right then and there
(keeping the pdf extension), and that is how it will be named when
downloaded on your HD.

I'm sure John knows he can do that, but that's an extra step that
prompted the original "why can't they just send the file with the main
part number that appears at the top of the data sheet" post.
TI used to have all these "spru1234" filenames as their "document
numbers" whether for TTL data sheets or for DSP compiler manuals, and
I never saw anything that said what the letter sequence meant. It all
gave a strange feeling that TI's filing system was based on a legacy
computer system with an 8-character-max filename convention.
But now TI sends the filename as just the actual part number, just
like you would expect! Amazing! Maybe it's time to buy TI stock.

In ancient times before there was a Web (or even a PC!) you had to
order TI datasheets by some inventory number that had nothing to do
with the part number. Of course, you had to track down that number
first! Then write, phone, or fax, then wait a couple of weeks for
delivery.

LTC does strange things with save-as filenames, too. Yes, I know how
to edit them, but it's a nuisance, and it complicates the "replace
existing file?" dialog too.

John

 

[EEng]

On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 13:04:30 -0700, John Larkin
<jjlarkin@highSNIPlandTHIStechPLEASEnology.com> wrote:

In ancient times before there was a Web (or even a PC!) you had to
order TI datasheets by some inventory number that had nothing to do
with the part number. Of course, you had to track down that number
first! Then write, phone, or fax, then wait a couple of weeks for
delivery.

Remember when we all thought "faxback" was the most awesome innovation
for getting data sheets faster than mail?

 

[Spehro Pefhany]

On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:28:18 -0700, the renowned EEng
<nunyabiz@budget.net> wrote:

On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 13:04:30 -0700, John Larkin
jjlarkin@highSNIPlandTHIStechPLEASEnology.com> wrote:

In ancient times before there was a Web (or even a PC!) you had to
order TI datasheets by some inventory number that had nothing to do
with the part number. Of course, you had to track down that number
first! Then write, phone, or fax, then wait a couple of weeks for
delivery.

Remember when we all thought "faxback" was the most awesome innovation
for getting data sheets faster than mail?

Good riddance to that one!

Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany
--
"it's the network..." "The Journey is the reward"
speff@interlog.com Info for manufacturers: http://www.trexon.com
Embedded software/hardware/analog Info for designers: http://www.speff.com

 

[Jim Thompson]

On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 22:42:46 GMT, Spehro Pefhany
<speffSNIP@interlogDOTyou.knowwhat> wrote:

On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 14:28:18 -0700, the renowned EEng
nunyabiz@budget.net> wrote:

On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 13:04:30 -0700, John Larkin
jjlarkin@highSNIPlandTHIStechPLEASEnology.com> wrote:

In ancient times before there was a Web (or even a PC!) you had to
order TI datasheets by some inventory number that had nothing to do
with the part number. Of course, you had to track down that number
first! Then write, phone, or fax, then wait a couple of weeks for
delivery.

Remember when we all thought "faxback" was the most awesome innovation
for getting data sheets faster than mail?

Good riddance to that one!

Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany

I've never had a real fax machine, always used WinFax, so the quality
was reasonably good.

I don't recall "faxback" ever taking more than few minutes

...Jim Thompson
--
| James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens |
| Analog Innovations, Inc. | et |
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
| Phoenix, Arizona Voice480)460-2350 | |
| E-mail Address at Website Fax480)460-2142 | Brass Rat |
| http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 |

I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

 

[John Larkin]

On 27 Apr 2004 21:57:28 -0700, stratus46@yahoo.com (Glenn Gundlach)
wrote:

John Larkin <jjlarkin@highSNIPlandTHIStechPLEASEnology.com> wrote in message news:<mcpt805h4pt8tj52193ajpsbthtj80hv10@4ax.com>...
OK, I want to save an AD8221 datasheet, so Analog Devices provides the
"save as" file name as...


597695969332879224376031AD8221_a.pdf


I guess I should be grateful that "AD8221" appears somewhere in the
string at all.

Snarl,

John

Just curious. What browser? I just looked up an AD81i I loaded a while
back and it too has a long file name. That was done using Opera
calling Acrobat 4. I just tried using IE6 also calling Acrobat 4. This
time the 'save as' filename was listed as '*.pdf' but the address bar
contained what you typed.
GG

Netscape 7. If I right-click the link, I get the silly ADI filename in
the save window, but if I try to save from within Acrobat I get the
*.pdf, as you do.

As long as I'm bitching, how about web pages that bookmark themselves
as "home page" or "welcome" or "products and solutions"?

John

 

[Mark Fergerson]

John Larkin wrote:

On 27 Apr 2004 21:57:28 -0700, stratus46@yahoo.com (Glenn Gundlach)
wrote:


John Larkin <jjlarkin@highSNIPlandTHIStechPLEASEnology.com> wrote in message news:<mcpt805h4pt8tj52193ajpsbthtj80hv10@4ax.com>...

OK, I want to save an AD8221 datasheet, so Analog Devices provides the
"save as" file name as...


597695969332879224376031AD8221_a.pdf


I guess I should be grateful that "AD8221" appears somewhere in the
string at all.

Snarl,

John

Just curious. What browser? I just looked up an AD81i I loaded a while
back and it too has a long file name. That was done using Opera
calling Acrobat 4. I just tried using IE6 also calling Acrobat 4. This
time the 'save as' filename was listed as '*.pdf' but the address bar
contained what you typed.
GG


Netscape 7. If I right-click the link, I get the silly ADI filename in
the save window, but if I try to save from within Acrobat I get the
*.pdf, as you do.

As long as I'm bitching, how about web pages that bookmark themselves
as "home page" or "welcome" or "products and solutions"?

One of my favorite peeves too.

With the page open (so you know what the hell it is),
click "Bookmarks", select "Manage Bookmarks", then
right-click on the bookmark's name, select "rename", and
call it what you'll remember. I don't think there's an
easier way in N7.

Mark L. Fergerson

 

[John Larkin]

On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 02:23:32 -0700, Mark Fergerson <nunya@biz.ness>
wrote:

John Larkin wrote:

On 27 Apr 2004 21:57:28 -0700, stratus46@yahoo.com (Glenn Gundlach)
wrote:


John Larkin <jjlarkin@highSNIPlandTHIStechPLEASEnology.com> wrote in message news:<mcpt805h4pt8tj52193ajpsbthtj80hv10@4ax.com>...

OK, I want to save an AD8221 datasheet, so Analog Devices provides the
"save as" file name as...


597695969332879224376031AD8221_a.pdf


I guess I should be grateful that "AD8221" appears somewhere in the
string at all.

Snarl,

John

Just curious. What browser? I just looked up an AD81i I loaded a while
back and it too has a long file name. That was done using Opera
calling Acrobat 4. I just tried using IE6 also calling Acrobat 4. This
time the 'save as' filename was listed as '*.pdf' but the address bar
contained what you typed.
GG


Netscape 7. If I right-click the link, I get the silly ADI filename in
the save window, but if I try to save from within Acrobat I get the
*.pdf, as you do.

As long as I'm bitching, how about web pages that bookmark themselves
as "home page" or "welcome" or "products and solutions"?

One of my favorite peeves too.

With the page open (so you know what the hell it is),
click "Bookmarks", select "Manage Bookmarks", then
right-click on the bookmark's name, select "rename", and
call it what you'll remember. I don't think there's an
easier way in N7.

Mark L. Fergerson

Agilent's semiconductor-site bookmarks include a user-session ID, so
they evaporate as soon as you exit the site. Smart!

John