Well, I'm glad to hear that. The last I had heard they hadn't done a linux but things definitely look better then. Hey, Jim's one of us guys:) so the linux port has gotta be all right. I think the cost always kept me away a bit but now that O'reily has come on board, it might be more worthwhile to me. On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 09:52:31PM -0500, Ann Parsons wrote: > Hi all, > > Nope, bookshare, thanks to Jim Danley and some others now has an > unpack tool in Linux. I have beta tested it and found it excellent. > The web site works well with The Cat. I don't know how well it works > with The Chain. You do have to pay $75 initially, $25 to get set up > and $50 for the year, though if you volunteer in some way, you can > reduce that rate considerably, I understand. > > they are not available to folks outside the U.S., but they claim to be > working on ways to accomplish this. > > <smile> Frankly, I prefer to spend my time volunteering at Kirk's > site, but I may throw them a book or two and might get my rate > deminished to a reasonable level. > > Naw, Steve, I wouldn't have joined if they hadn't been accessible to > Linuxers. > > Ann P. > > -- > Ann K. Parsons > email: akp at eznet.net ICQ Number: 33006854 > WEB SITE: http://home.eznet.net/~akp > "All that is gold does not glitter. Not all those who wander are lost." JRRT > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
