Hi again Jean,
I just ran the upgrade patch. That process went fine and I'll see whether
that freeze within a document has stopped. One shouldn't need to exit from
a document unless the battery is low and one needs to plug it in
immediately. Had to get a 512 meg SD card. I believe it was $29.99 at
Best Buys. Smaller cards cost more, go figure!
I have a Belcan USB to parallel cable, no software required. The M-power
doesn't recognize the cable, keep getting the card not recognized
messsage. The only thing I can do is unplug the cable and do a reset if I
wish to do anything with my M-power. Meanwhile, I'll need to use my older
BN to emboss a braille document till I solve this problem of the USB port
not working with my embosser. I plugged everything in first, then turned
on the BN and the card not recognized message shows up whether the cable is
plugged into anything or not! That is the latest thus far.
Jim Aldrich
At 10:14 AM 11/18/2005 , you wrote:
Hi Jim
Well, then the idea of calling it a save option, S-cord, is totally
misleading. Yes, you can change file types, etc., but if you just press
enter to accept the current status, I still don't understand why it isn't
a true save. Yes, I now exit the application as a periodic save, but that
seems a bit counter productive to me.
Jean
----- Original Message ----- From: "James Aldrich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 11:53 AM
Subject: Re: [Braillenote] Printers and the mPower
Hi Jean,
The best way to save your work is to simply exit your document especially
if you are using a given file for your own information and work. You
would use the Spacebar with S if you wish to save your work as another
file type or you would export your document to another file type. Quite
often I'll save a Microsoft Word file to a text document by using the S
with spacebar. I then will translate that document into a braille
file which I'll emboss. When using the S chord, one can save the
original and work with the new document which comes in handy. I'm trying
to emphasize that you don't use the S with spacebar to save a document
unless you wish to save it as another document type. Or, you can go to
the file manager to export the document to another file type. There's
more than one way to do the same thing.
I have a computer person coming by today with any number of things, one
of which will be an SD card and the other hopefully a USB to parallel
converter cable. We'll see what happens. I'll report back to the list.
Do take care!
Jim Aldrich
At 07:56 AM 11/18/2005 , you wrote:
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]>
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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)
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