The standard ASCII page is about 4096 characters and a braille page is
...oh let's say 40x25 or about 1000 characters.
thank you!
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I was reading a collection of stories by Arthur C. Clarke when suddenly Braille
Note stopped reading. I assumed it was a picture it was working over, since I
had experienced such pauses with other books. Usually the pauses in the past
had been short, but this one lasted a very long time. I wanted to continue the
story, but when I tried to go forward, nothing happened. I was stuck. I tried
to exit, but Braille Note didn't respond. I hit the reset button, got the
voice bacck and tried to re open the file. Braille Note said that there wasn't
enough room on my disk, but when I checked, I had 7'000,000 bytes free and a
good number, at least 3,000,000 free on the other disk. I did a reset holding
down dots 123. Sure enough the file opened again, and the cursor came back a
bit back in the text before the reading had stopped. I decided to read to see
what would happen. It hung up again in the way I described, but this time I
noticed Braille Note had added a comment. Perhap!
s I just hadn't heard it earlier? It said "Repositioning." Repositioning? It
never got around to reading for several minutes. I did the resets again. This
time I would try to see about where I was before the trouble started. Sure
enough, when I reopened the file, the text was close to where that thing would
happen again. Being optamistic, I hoped, not. Hey, I thought the Brits would
enjoy my playing around with optamistic. Well, I wanted to read the story.
This time, though, before I was in trouble, I checked to see where I was by
pressing 156 chord. The page number was either 1007 or 1047. I can't remember
exactly. I decided not to read to the problem again. I decided to go to the
bottom of the file, but the page number there was 78. I checked out the text,
and it contained a story I had already read. Well, it seemed to me that
there's a bit about Braille Note I don't know. Can it accept commands from
other sources? Should I have searched for and deleted potent!
ial control characters in that file? Please tell me what I did right or wrong.
Could it just be a bad download, or a bad scan? Do downloads vary? Guys, I
decided to delete that book for now. Is there a limit about reading files? Did
I exceede how large a file should be? I think that file had about two million
bytes.
As a matter of curiosity, how many bytes does a Braillenote page contain?
Now I'm the kind of user who cleans up my free space after every email session,
so that's not the problem. I'm running 5.00, not 5.1. I decided not to go
after that new program. If I like my system the way it is, why rush? I use it
for email and reading my books.
It's a good system.
Brenda Mueller
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