There is a way. If you copy a zip file (for arguments' sake, test.zip) to your
BrailleNote and rename it to ("test.bks"), you will
be able to extract the book as if it were a bookshare book. What would be nice
is if the BrailleNote would register .zip files with
the BKSUnpack.EXE file.
Matthew
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From: "Diane Garrett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Braillenote List" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2005 8:01 PM
Subject: RE: [Braillenote] off topic asci
Hi, List!
Jonathan, or Dean, will there be an unzip feature in the future that will do
more than just Bookshare books? People keep offering to
give me zipped files for my BNQT, but I just place them on my laptop to be
unzipped before placing on the BNQT. It would be nice to
unzip anything when you need to on the BN. Can this be done at all, or is there
a programming issue with this one?
Thanks for your answers to this and other questions.
Diane Garrett/Leader Daisy
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> ----- Original Message -----
>From: "Van Der Walt Riana" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: "Tom Lange" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,"Braillenote List"
><[email protected]
>Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 08:49:35 +0200
>Subject: RE: [Braillenote] off topic asci
>Dear Listers,
>I just want to add that the bks trick on the bn doesn't always work to
>unzip files, especially when there are several zipped files in one
>folder; but it seems to work with all bookshare files, although I could
>only test that with non copyrighted books, as I don't have access to the
>other bookshare titles.
>I also found it interesting that one can unzip a bookshare file on a pc,
>without changing the bks extension to zip.
>Regards
>Riana
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tom Lange [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: 18 January 2005 09:36
>To: Braillenote List
>Subject: Re: [Braillenote] off topic asci
>Hi,
>Bob writes:
>Ann, I just learned that the pac mate does now have an unzip package as
>of
>three weeks ago. Does the Braille note have an unzip package?
>Yes, sort of. When you unpack a bookshare book you are in fact using an
>unzipping utility. If you have a .zip file containing multiple
>documents,
>you can rename it, giving it a .bks extension. Then, after transferring
>it
>to the Braille Note, use the book reader to access the .bks file. You'll
>be
>prompted for the path to the file and the destination for the unpacked
>"book". Tell it where you want everything, press Enter on the password
>prompt and you'll be placed in one of the unpacked files. If you exit
>out,
>then do a directory listing on the folder in question, you should find
>that
>all of the files have been unpacked. I offer this as a rather unorthodox
>way
>of dealing with the issue, and, since Pulse Data may not support the
>bookshare unpack utility for this purpose, I'd say that your mileage may
>vary and use the utility for unzipping multiple files at your own risk.
>Tom
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