Can somebody get this link to work...

[LawyerRon]

I'm trying to d/l the PaperPort viewer from this site:
http://www.scansoft.com/paperport/downloads/

and can't seem to get it to start the d/l.

Can somebody else try it please??

[pastorleon]

LawyerRon,

It just worked fine for me. No hang ups at all.


The Rev is in.

[Statica]

Why dont you just use a dos prompt FTP (learning the commands is something that I'd recommend) or an FTP program to download the file? IE seems to hang for ever during FTP login sessions.
The link is: ftp://ftp.scansoft.com/pub/program/p...rt/setupex.exe

[gbirke]

I just downloaded it too. no problems

[LawyerRon]

Thanks Statica, I'll give it a try, I'm kinda lost with that ftp stuff.

Ron

[LawyerRon]

Statica,
Can you tell me a bit more about how to accomplish the d/l from a dos prompt, I'm kinda lost here....

[Statica]

Was just abt to PM you with a quick primer to get the job done .. i'll pick it up here in case someone else wants to use it:

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Just thot I'd pass along a quick ftp primer for DOS mode (downloads will even be faster than IE) - Windows does come with the ftp command. Open up a DOS prompt and try this out:
(bold = commands you type)(italics=a brief explanation)(what you should see)
C:\Windows> cd \
changing to a useable directory .. for example
C:\> ftp ftp.scansoft.com
this starts the ftp program and connects to scansoft.com at port21 (the default port)

Connected to ftp1.scansoft.com.
220 ftp1 Microsoft FTP Service (Version 4.0).
User (ftp1.scansoft.com:(none)):anonymous
331 Anonymous access allowed, send identity (e-mail name) as password.
Password:me@here.com
this tries to log in using an anymous account/guest account
230 Anonymous user logged in.
ftp> cd /pub/program/paperport
notice the prompt level is now ftp> not C:\> this means that you are issuing commands to the remote computer. the cd command does a change directory to the desired directory - notice the URL; except for the last bit .. the file name, the rest represents a directory.
250 CWD command successful.
ftp>ls
this command does a directory listing, some servers will even accept the DOS based dir command as well

cp_max.jar
french.exe
german.exe
italian.exe
np_max.cab
np_max.xpi
PaperPort_5_0_Viewer_Installer.bin
Paperport4.zip
PaperPortOCRLinkPatch.exe
PPPatchBP.exe
PPPatchDE.exe
PPPatchES.exe
PPPatchFR.exe
PPPatchIT.exe
PRPORT36.zip
setupex.exe
spanish.exe
viewersetupex.exe
226 Transfer complete.
ftp: 286 bytes received in 0.00Seconds 286000.00Kbytes/sec
ftp>hash
this is just a helpful nugget that will show you progress of the download by putting a # when you download it
Hash mark printing On ftp: (2048 bytes/hash mark) .
ftp> bin
this sets the transfer method as binary mode, as opposed to ascii mode that you would use for files like text files, images etc.
200 Type set to I.
ftp> get setupex.exe
this instructs the program to get the specified file (from the URL), the #s you see represents the file coming to u .. like a transfer meter) .. note the file will come to you in the directory you started your ftp in - C:\ in this case
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for setupex.exe(2770856 bytes).
##########################################......
226 Transfer complete.
ftp: 2770856 bytes received in 45.87Seconds 60.41Kbytes/sec.
ftp> bye
signing off

[TimPoet]

Ron, ya want me to AIM the file to ya?

[Statica]

There are more FTP commands than I've showed above, but that is just to get the job done. If you want to know more commands just open a dos prompt and type help or ?at any time to see some of the common FTP commands supported. To learn more abt a particular command type ? _commandname_

Of course, all of this is automated if you use an FTP program like WS_FTP or CuteFTP .. but it still is helpful to learn the basics, for such eventualities (every FTP program does the same thing). only allows you to use a GUI.

The obvious advantage is that you get to the file as quickly as possible, its often faster than doing the same thing as using a browser, In addition, and VERY IMPORTANTLY, it will tell you why you arent able to download the file you seek .. IE may give you a dumb error, but this method will let you see what error the server gave .. perhaps there are too many users on the server and you will have to wait, perhaps anonymous access is not available, perhaps the file is changed. Getting a directory listing will show you other files that you may need or can use as an alternative.

[LawyerRon]

Statica,
After typing C:\> ftp ftp.scansoft.com in a dos window (is it ok to use a dos window?) I get: >ftp: connect :10065 >ftp

[BlueKrystal22]

Thank you Statica - this is very useful for more than one reason...

[LawyerRon]

All is well, Statica sent me the file. Thanks all.