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
