Hello!
You can get to the Black Mask site by typing www.blackmask.com. It is part
of project Gutenberg which can be reached at www.gutenberg.net.
Disregard what I wrote below. Look for my amended message on this subject.
Jim
. At 06:11 AM 12/20/2005 , you wrote:
Hi. What is this site for and what is the url? Do they have all kinds of
books or only a select few?
jenifer
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Hello Bob and list,
Would like to thank you Bob for a most educational afternoon (grin
smile)! It took a few tries but I managed to download two books from that
site. The first was Ghost at the Manor around 261,700 bytes ascii text and
roughly 215,700 bytes in a Keyword document. I goofed up my system when
saving the second book, Chain of Death roughly 257,700 bytes in a Keyword
document. I rounded off the numbers. The first book had 27 chapters and
the second 22 chapters. I noticed in Ghost at the Manor that they left the
last two chapters out of the contents, oh well. When I went to the link
for chapter one, everything seemed to lock up. I couldn't get anything to
happen. I turned off my M-power and turned it back on again. This
disconnected me from the site. I waited for around thirty seconds or
slightly less and the text of the book appeared, all 27 chapters and
contents. I then pasted this to the clipboard once I defined the block. I
then created a .txt file and pasted the contents of the clipboard into that
file. That went well so saved everything to a Keyword Braille file and
added place markers at the beginning of chapters. Unfortunately, there
were 27 chapters and only 26 place markers available but I think this will
be useful when reading. I haven't put place markers in the second book
yet. I moved everything to the compact flash card. I cleared all
temporary files, I did a standard reset and a 4 5 6 reset and never lost
the contents of the clipboard which was the last book, Chain of Death. I
was amazed the clipboard wasn't lost! The only way I could get rid of what
I had in the clipboard was to copy a sentence from another document into
it. When I pasted the clipboard into a new test document, I only got the
sentence I pasted, not the book. My Keysoft System disk seemed to be okay
since I deleted all temporary files.
If you know of a book you had a problem with, please pass it along and I'll
try to download it on my M-power to see what happens.
The day went so fast, I thought I only ate lunch an hour ago before i
realized I was being called to the supper table, Wow! Don't know where the
day went. The books I mentioned are new I think and they were the first
two books I came across when going on the cite.
Thanks much!
Jim Aldrich
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