Hang on, folks. Larry Skutchan, head of development at American Printing
House,who also happens to have been a programmer of applications for Apple
computers many years ago, has stated that APH is, in fact, willing to
support the Mac. According to him, it was more a matter of when as opposed
to whether or not they would do it. One can easily connect the Book Port to
a Mac and it'll simply be recognized as a USB drive with a FAT 32 file
system. You can copy and paste files with no problem. The issue is with the
creation of DB and AA files that keep track of playback postions and such.
It's apparently not such a huge project so, in time, I think it'll happen.
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Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2006 2:21 PM
Subject: RE: Katieplayer on an Intel Mac
Yes, I loaned him my BC and I believe he had a very difficult time
obtaining cooperation from the developer to get the transfer tool to work
on
the Mac. I forget the details, so he can comment, if he wishes.
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Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2006 2:12 PM
To: General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by
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blind
Subject: Re: Katieplayer on an Intel Mac
On Apr 9, 2006, at 2:03 PM, John Panarese wrote:
My understanding, if this was not mentioned, is there was an
attempt to get some technical data to be able to connect both Book
Port and Book
Courier to a Mac and develop a version of the transfer tool.
However, there
was a bit of resistance from the hardware developer, at least, in the
case of the BC.
I believe Greg Kearney may have taken a look at this?
Joe
