I wonder if they save to a temp file which is still available after a lockup? (A long shot and the answer is probably "No"!)
-- Carol [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jean Menzies Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 3:56 PM To: Braillenote List Subject: Re: [Braillenote] Printers and the mPower So, Jim. Sorry you lost your work with the freeze. I can relate as that just happened to me. No one from HumanWare or on the list attempted to answer my question on that subject, though. Although I had been saving my work often with the S-cord command, I lost everything when I had to use the simple reset button to get out of the frozen state. The only save that was recognized was the much earlier point where I had exited the KeyWord application with E-cord. So, why bother with periodic S-cord saves if they don't really save the work in the event of a system lock-up? Jean ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Aldrich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Braillenote List" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 9:52 PM Subject: re: [Braillenote] Printers and the mPower > Rhonda, Kathy and list, > > I'm facing this same situation only as it applies to embossing > documents. I may need to read that section. > > I was editing a newsletter for embossing. While working on it last > night, the "freeze bug" decided to visit me. Perhaps it had to find a > new place since a number of you have run the patch. I was stuck in > the page column and line information and couldn't get out no matter > what I tried to do. My only option was to hit the reset button. > Needless to say, I lost two hours of work. Luckily, most of my > efforts dealt with formatting. I would really have been mad had I > written the document from scratch. I recovered much of my work last > night and finished everything up tonight. I will probably transfer > the document over to my BN classic which has the parallel port and > I'll be able to emboss from there I hope! What a pain! I hope to > have the necessary interface by the time I do this newsletter again. > > Keep us posted! > > Jim Aldrich > > At 05:40 PM 11/17/2005 , you wrote: >>Kathy, first of all, in looking at the manual, it says that this >>discussion is outside the scope of the user guide, for what that's >>worth. USB is now the universal standard for connecting to printers. >>Plug the USB printer into one of your BrailleNote BT USB host ports, >>and select USB as your printer port. >>Though the BrailleNote mPower no longer has a parallel port, it is >>possible to use a printer or embosser that only has a parallel >>connecter. Using an Inside Out Networks -- Edgeport/421 >>multi-interface converter, you can print to a parallel printer or >>embosser by plugging in the USB cable of the converter to the BN BT, >>and the parallel cable of the printer into the converter hub. >>This requires a special driver to work on the BN. No software is >>required to be downloaded for this. There is more information on this >>in section 6.8.6. Good luck. >> >>>----- Original Message ----- >>>From: kathy davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>To: [email protected] >>>Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 19:05:35 -0700 >>>Subject: [Braillenote] Printers and the mPower >> >>>Hi, List and Humanware staff, >> >>>What printers have you mPower users used successfully with your >>mPower? If they were not a USB printer, have you had success with the >>USB to parallel converter cables? >>>I will need such a cable to use with my Epson printer, and >>wondered if they're workable. >>>I could connect the mPower to the Canon printer my husband uses, >>via the USB port, but unfortunately it was not supported by the mPower >>even in the standard setting, hence the need to try my Epson. We have >>a third printer but it's also a Canon. >>>Thanks for your help. >>>Kathy (still enjoying using my mPower) >> >>>___ >>>To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to >>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit >>>http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote >> >> >>___ >>To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit >>http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote >> > > > ___ > To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit > http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote > > ___ To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.13.3/174 - Release Date: 17/11/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.13.3/174 - Release Date: 17/11/2005
