You are making just entirely too much work for yourself all for nothing. Here's how I deal with BARD books on my Mac.
1. Find the book you wish. 2. Press VO+space bar to download it. It will drop in to your downloads folder unless you've changed this default location. 3. IF your Safari is set to open safe files automatically, it will do so and drop the zip version directly in to the trash. This, I think, explains why you are not seeing the .zip extention. You have the unzipped folder now and the .zip version is in your trash. 4. If your Safari is not set to open safe files automatically, you will see the .zip extention and need to open the file. Just press command+o to open this file. It will unzip and open for you. Now, just use finder to transfer the book to what ever medium you wish. Sincerely, The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! Now a very proud and happy Mac user!!! Skype name: barefootedray Facebook: facebook.com/ray.foretjr.1 On Jan 9, 2012, at 1:06 PM, .dan. wrote: > > Using terminal from within the browser lynx I downloaded a bard book. This is > the name of the file: > > DB-Fleming, > > Note it ends in a comma. That is the author's name preceeded by "db". > > It is my understanding that before one moves the contents to a flash drive > for use in the nls machine it must be uncompressed. > > On a web page describing doing this in the mac gui it talks about "unzipping" > the book first. I assume this is a generic reference because the file does > not indicate it is a "zip" file. Renaming it with a zip extension doesn't > help when I use unzip on it. The program says it is not a zip file. > > I would like to perform all this in terminal if at all possible. What > compression scheme is used and how can it be uncompressed? > > Can the uncompression the mac gui uses be run from the command line? Can the > open command be used with it somehow? What is the name of the program? > > Thanks for any info or help, > > Dan > XB > IC|XC > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
