Brenda, Many thanks for that tip and to everyone else who mentioned it to. I tried it out and it worked just fine.
The newspapers I get are from a british site called WWW.tnauk.org.uk and they used to just record cassettes for people of magazines etc but nowadays they have agreements with many national newspapers to take their articles and format them and email them out to blind people. The cost depends on how many you take, but I think you get ten publications for something like forty pounds per year. So you can subscribe to ten different magazines and newspapers and receive all their editions via email. Many of them are available on the actual publication day but not all. I put them onto by BN and read them on the train/tube ... Gary Gary O'Donoghue, BBC Political Correspondent Tel: +44 (0)207 9736007 Mob: 07802 232212 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brenda Mueller Sent: 22 May 2004 01:05 To: Braillenote List Subject: re: [Braillenote] Zip files Gary, you can unzip most files by playing a little trick. Now you know that you have a book reader on your system. Take that zipped file, change the zip extension to bks, and move it to mybooks. Now your reader thinks it's opening a book. Just follow the procedure that you follow when opening a book from bookshare, but with your system set to ascii braille. When it asks for a password, just hit return. Most zipped files will open that way. There's a much more detailed message I have stored on disk that told me how to do it. If you need more details, I can send you that message, if you don't have it in the future messages I'm about to read here. Does this help? Where do you get the newspapers, and how did you set it up so they come in your email? How much do those newspapers cost? Brenda Mueller > ----- Original Message ----- >From: "Gary ODonoghue" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: <[email protected] >Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 14:02:47 +0100 >Subject: [Braillenote] Zip files >This issue may have been discussed before so apologies if it has. But >does any one know whether there's been any thought put to giving the >Braile note the capacity to unzip standard zipped files? There are >unzip progs that run on the Windows CE platform as I understand it. I >get quite a lot of newspapers delivered by email and they're zipped. >Would be good if I could simply unzip these directly on the BN without >having to transfer the file back and forth to the PC. >Gary >Gary O'Donoghue, BBC Political Correspondent >Tel: +44 (0)207 9736007 >Mob: 07802 232212 >http://www.bbc.co.uk/ - World Wide Wonderland >This e-mail (and any attachments) is confidential and may contain >personal views which are not the views of the BBC unless specifically >stated. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your >system. Do not use, copy or disclose the information in any way nor act >in reliance on it and notify the sender immediately. Please note that >the BBC monitors e-mails sent or received. >Further communication will signify your consent to this. >___ >To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit >http://list.pulsedata.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.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote http://www.bbc.co.uk/ - World Wide Wonderland This e-mail (and any attachments) is confidential and may contain personal views which are not the views of the BBC unless specifically stated. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system. Do not use, copy or disclose the information in any way nor act in reliance on it and notify the sender immediately. Please note that the BBC monitors e-mails sent or received. Further communication will signify your consent to this.
