Forgive me if someone else has pointed this out. Bookshare *claims* to have a Linux version. However they cannot give you any indication which distributions it actually works in, or that was the information i got after Ilast checked a few months back. Frankly, there should have equal access and that even means dos, if they claim to be a nonprofit. Not providing access at the basic levels, command line distributions of Linux, or even dos, is discrimination. Granted many in the so called community use computer access as a way to create an us/them structure, with freedom scientific and the freedom box people, <and i still think they have tines> being some of the worse offenders. Karen On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Janina Sajka wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
