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Technical Requirements

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The Club issues many of its publications in Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). To view these documents you need Adobe Reader® installed on your computer. The free Adobe Reader can be downloaded from the link on this page.

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Download Speeds

Throughout this site you will see the filesizes of any files that can be downloaded from this website to your computer. This gives you an indication of how long it will take to download a file.

In general:

A one megabyte file (1 Mb or 1,000 Kb) should take approximately 5 minutes to download using a 56k modem connection.