It's not a question of zip, gunzip, or any other particular archive format. The books are encrypted with your login password. Unzip, tar, and all those tools, won't handle that. Beth Hatch writes: > Hi James, > > I could not tell from your message, did you first change the book's > extension from bks to zip before attempting to unpack it? If you did do > this, I apologize, I just could not tell from your message. I've been able > to unpack bookshare books using this method, but unfortunately I haven't > tried it in Linux yet. > > Good luck with it, and please let us know if/when you get a response from > bookshare. > > Beth > > -----Original Message----- > From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] > On Behalf Of JAMES DOSMAN > Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 10:16 PM > To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca > Subject: RE: bookshare.org unpack > > I tryed unziping the book with unzip like you sed and it did not seem to > work i also tryed gunzip and bunzip2 but none of them liked it > I was able to unpack the file with the windows unpack tool and it opened > ok but it did not work for the bks-unpack in linux. > I called them on the phone today and i got a voice mail and so i hope i hear > from them soon. > james > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka Phone: +1.202.494.7040 Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://www.CapitalAccessibility.Com Bringing the Owasys 22C screenless cell phone to the U.S. and Canada. Go to http://www.ScreenlessPhone.Com to learn more. Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org http://a11y.org
