RJT>> I saw *something* at some point in the not-too-distant
 RJT>> past (few months?) that said as to how you could
 RJT>> convert these to some other format.  A few that I've
 RJT>> accumulated recently are absurdly large, up to maybe
 RJT>> half a meg for _a data sheet_ for one chip!  If I can
 RJT>> find that info I'll have a go at doing that on some
 RJT>> number of the files here.

 EH> If you or anyone else comes up with an easy method for
 EH> converting PDF format to plain old ASCII text, I sure would
 EH> like to know about it!

sadly, that's probably doubtful... not without loosing some of the content,
anyway... FWIW: i've a php install that generates PDF files any time i
want/need them... much better than any old ASCII format that i could dream
of...

)\/(ark