I was reading a collection of stories by Arthur C. Clarke when suddenly Braille Note stopped reading. I assumed it was a picture it was working over, since I had experienced such pauses with other books. Usually the pauses in the past had been short, but this one lasted a very long time. I wanted to continue the story, but when I tried to go forward, nothing happened. I was stuck. I tried to exit, but Braille Note didn't respond. I hit the reset button, got the voice bacck and tried to re open the file. Braille Note said that there wasn't enough room on my disk, but when I checked, I had 7'000,000 bytes free and a good number, at least 3,000,000 free on the other disk. I did a reset holding down dots 123. Sure enough the file opened again, and the cursor came back a bit back in the text before the reading had stopped. I decided to read to see what would happen. It hung up again in the way I described, but this time I noticed Braille Note had added a comment. Perhap! s I just hadn't heard it earlier? It said "Repositioning." Repositioning? It never got around to reading for several minutes. I did the resets again. This time I would try to see about where I was before the trouble started. Sure enough, when I reopened the file, the text was close to where that thing would happen again. Being optamistic, I hoped, not. Hey, I thought the Brits would enjoy my playing around with optamistic. Well, I wanted to read the story. This time, though, before I was in trouble, I checked to see where I was by pressing 156 chord. The page number was either 1007 or 1047. I can't remember exactly. I decided not to read to the problem again. I decided to go to the bottom of the file, but the page number there was 78. I checked out the text, and it contained a story I had already read. Well, it seemed to me that there's a bit about Braille Note I don't know. Can it accept commands from other sources? Should I have searched for and deleted potent! ial control characters in that file? Please tell me what I did right or wrong. Could it just be a bad download, or a bad scan? Do downloads vary? Guys, I decided to delete that book for now. Is there a limit about reading files? Did I exceede how large a file should be? I think that file had about two million bytes. As a matter of curiosity, how many bytes does a Braillenote page contain?
Now I'm the kind of user who cleans up my free space after every email session, so that's not the problem. I'm running 5.00, not 5.1. I decided not to go after that new program. If I like my system the way it is, why rush? I use it for email and reading my books. It's a good system. Brenda Mueller
