Post by thread:PIC12Cxx Data Sheet

I think I am beginning to figure out how to persuade lynx to get to the data sheets on Microchip's web site. I thought for a long time that it wouldn't download them at all without having an exact link, but I discovered that clicking on or selecting a link actually does do something, it is just not obvious at first. It is necessary to get through the links back to the home page first and then one starts getting the desired link. Now for the latest twist. I wanted to look at the data sheets for the 12Cxx devices and I found 40139e.pdf. This appears to be a data sheet for several of the 12Cxx family. It also appears that it is a bit-mapped picture of a printed page and has no intelligence (ASCII) at all. Other data sheets for the 16F84 and 17C43 did produce searchable text with no problem. Am I just getting the wrong document or is there some reason why the 12Cxx literature does not decode to ASCII? Martin McCormick

> I wanted to look at the data sheets for the 12Cxx devices and > I found 40139e.pdf. This appears to be a data sheet for several of > the 12Cxx family. It also appears that it is a bit-mapped picture of > a printed page and has no intelligence (ASCII) at all Martin, You know that you are looking at a PDF document. PDF is not ASCII. Get a PDF viewer for free at http://www.adobe.com John __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com

John C. Frenzel wrote: > > > I wanted to look at the data sheets for the 12Cxx devices and > > I found 40139e.pdf. This appears to be a data sheet for several of > > the 12Cxx family. It also appears that it is a bit-mapped picture of > > a printed page and has no intelligence (ASCII) at all > > Martin, > You know that you are looking at a PDF document. PDF is not ASCII. Get a > PDF viewer for free at http://www.adobe.com > John Good idea, but Lynx is typically a Unix/Linux/Dos, Command Line Interface, character-based app, John; I've been talking to Martin off-list & there's good reason for his request for info, he's handled now though, someone helped him <G> Mark

Hi Martin, You aren't trying to download the PDF files,are you? AFAIK, the docs on the web site are almost all in PDF format,which will not directly decode to ASCII, you would need some kind of other software to turn it into an ASCII file. (I appologize if you already know this and I misunderstand your question) In addition, there seems to be (at least, as of a few months ago - it still happens to me) a consensus that the large tables on the Mchip pages cause long delays (several seconds) between when the page is actually loaded and when it gets displayed. I am using Netscape 4.xx, perhaps that happens in Lynx,too, OR it somehow confuses Lynx? Sean At 01:42 PM 10/22/99 -0500, you wrote: {Quote hidden}> I think I am beginning to figure out how to persuade lynx to >get to the data sheets on Microchip's web site. I thought for a long >time that it wouldn't download them at all without having an exact >link, but I discovered that clicking on or selecting a link actually >does do something, it is just not obvious at first. It is necessary >to get through the links back to the home page first and then one >starts getting the desired link. Now for the latest twist. > > I wanted to look at the data sheets for the 12Cxx devices and >I found 40139e.pdf. This appears to be a data sheet for several of >the 12Cxx family. It also appears that it is a bit-mapped picture of >a printed page and has no intelligence (ASCII) at all. Other data >sheets for the 16F84 and 17C43 did produce searchable text with no >problem. > > Am I just getting the wrong document or is there some reason >why the 12Cxx literature does not decode to ASCII? > >Martin McCormick > | | Sean Breheny | Amateur Radio Callsign: KA3YXM | Electrical Engineering Student \--------------=---------------- Save lives, please look at http://www.all.org Personal page: http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/shb7 spam_OUTshb7TakeThisOuTcornell.edu ICQ #: 3329174