Hi Rhonda and list,
She hasn't downloaded messages with her BN lately. haven't tried it. If
you have a suggestion of who I could send an attachment to, I'll try it!
Jim
At 10:42 AM 03/19/2005 , you wrote:
Jim, here is another thing. Can you send an attachment to your wife and be
able to read it, or will it come out blank?
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Aldrich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2005 12:20 PM
Subject: [Braillenote] Word Pad Notice
> Hello list,
>
> I placed a Microsoft Word File into my BN. When I attempted to open it, I
> got a gong chime sound then some kind of word Pad message that the file I
> was trying to open didn't fit the specifications of 1995-1997 MSW program
> file I would say! This of course is an improvement of silence we use to
> get, but was surprised to get this alert! I understood 6.1 was to better
> handle newer versions of MSW. I was then presented with options but
> couldn't see them at all! My BN soon started beeping! I hit enter and my
> unit said opening file, please wait! I waited for some minutes but my
unit
> kept beeping! I could only reset my unit to get out of that mess! I
tried
> it twice! I then opened the file with Openbook and I could read it
> there. I converted it to .rtf and my BN could read that okay! I sent it
> to myself so I could retrieve it on the BN through Email. The BN said the
> message was too large to download so changed the size of post i could
> download and managed to get the file. I'm wondering whether others have
> encountered this and how often might this happen with MSW files? Of
> course, the file may have been converted from an .SLX file so that may
have
> caused the problem as well, I really don't know! Thought I'd bring it to
> your attention for what it is worth!
>
> Jim Aldrich
>
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