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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected]> Subject: Re: What Am I
> Missing?> Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 10:29:54 -0500> > Dennis and David,> > The
> files I am trying to convert come from Baen Books free library.> > They are
> available for download in several format. I have previously > downloaded them
> in rtf and doc format for the laptop and now want to convert > them to the
> Plucker for the Palm TX. I do have a card reader and can copy > the files
> directly to the expansion card.> > Baen offers many of its books in the
> "Palm" prc format. I downloaded one to > try it. The Palm software happily
> treated it like it was supposed to, but > when we read it on the Palm, it
> included html coding on every page.> > Since the Gutenberg books downloaded
> in Palm format and the Gutenberg books > converted with the Plucker software
> to Plucker format work properly and the > Baen books don't, it would seem to
> me that the issue is in the conversion > and not the viewer and transfer
> software.> > Since my original post, I have tried having Word save the files
> as MS DOS > and Unicode text files. Neither of these options seemed to work.>
> > I do not have Perl, so the demoronizer program is not an option.> > Any
> ideas?> > Thanks!> > Bob> > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "dmccunney"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> To: "General Plucker discussion"
> <[email protected]>> Sent: Saturday, February 09, 2008 2:51 AM> Subject:
> Re: What Am I Missing?> > > > On Feb 8, 2008 9:49 PM, Bob Cherny <[EMAIL
> PROTECTED]> wrote:> >> >> The files are landing in the launcher
> subdirectory.> >> > I use /Palm/Programs/Plucker, and drop the files there
> with a USB card> > reader. I *don't* like the habit of everything winding up
> be default> > in /Palm/Launcher. (And I have 3,210 Plucker files on my
> device, so I> > damn well want them in their own directory.)> >> > If you
> don't have a card reader, look at PInstall from Envicon.de.> > It's a
> freeware replacement for the Palm Install Tool and Quick> > Install programs.
> It doesn't use Hotsync (and it shuts down Hotsync> > Manager if it's running
> and restarts it when it's done.) And it> > doesn't care about Hotsync ID. It
> simply sends selected files out the> > selected port to the connected device.
> I can install to RAM or to a> > specified directory on a card.> >> >
> http://www.envicon.de/e/pinstall/pinstall.html> >> >> Upon further
> experimentation I have discovered that files I downloaded > >> from> >>
> Gutenberg as text files (as opposed to rtf or doc files) convert properly> >>
> and work as they should.> >> > PG doesn't offer RTF or doc files, so I'm not
> sure how you are getting> > those. I grabbed the zipped HTML, which converts
> readily.> >> >> The files that are not working properly are those converted
> from rtf or > >> doc> >> files. Therefore it would seem that there is
> something wrong in one of > >> the> >> settings I am using to make the
> conversion. What settings should I use > >> when> >> I save the file to txt
> to make them compatible?> >> > Since you run Windows, take a look at Rafael
> Setzer's PDA Converter:> >
> http://www.jakewalk.de/wiki/pmwiki.php?n=MySoftware.PdaConverter> >> > PDA
> Converter is a GUI shell for the Plucker parser that does the> > conversion.
> IT provides a friendly way to specify the desired> > options, then calls the
> Plucker parser as a background task to convert> > the file(s).> >> >>
> Thanks!> >> Bob> > ______> > Dennis> >
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