Online Service Manuals

From: Ryan Krokosinski (ryan@equinoxfinancial.com)
Date: Fri Jul 16 1999 - 17:35:53 EDT


I have the '99 FSM and man, it's like 1,000,000 pages. Aint no
way I got time to scan that. It's like 2 inches thick. It would
be cool though. Problem is, when they sell them for $100 buck
apiece I doubt they'd sell many if it were free. That means they
wouldn't be too happy if they found out about it.

Ryan K
'99 R/T RC

durling@ibm.net wrote:
>
> This is in reply to someone's post a little while back about factory
> service manuals being availiable online (sorry didn't save the post and
> don't remember the name). I got this idea from IBM for the factory
> service manual for my home computer. IBM sells the manual if you want it
> but they also make it availiable for download in adobe PDF format. This
> makes it that once you download it you can view it in realtime when you
> want and print out the info you need. Like an electronic book. If
> someone had the factory service manual(s) for the daks and had the full
> registered version of adobe acrobat they could scan the manual and
> create an online book. I don't have a manual or the program and don't
> know how much the registered version costs but it's just a thought.
>
> If we could find a way, even through an outside company that does this,
> Jon could set up a section on the home page where you could download the
> manual for your particular model year(s). Again just a thought
>
> BTW, I used adobe because it seems to begood at keeping the file size
> down. The service manual for my computer is quite large (approx. 900
> pages) and only downloaded as a 600K file.
>
> Jeff Durling
> '96 RC Sport



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