Thanks, Karen. The answer you got from Ken makes plenty of sense. I have emailed my suggestion to BookShare using my formal capacity as a member of their Advisory Committee. I do not yet have an answer--but it may be that people are on vacation. I don't know. I do expect to get an answer eventually. Ken is undoubtedly correct. Since no source is available, he's powerless to do more on his own. He's running BSD, not Linux, so a Linux tool might, or more likely would not work. It seems simply using the tool compiled for Linux doesn't work on BSD. So, if BookShare agrees with my suggestion, I'm sure we can take this to the next step. Meanwhile, we should just wait for their reply. Karen Lewellen writes: > Hi all, > I sent part of this exchange to the administrator at Shell world. I have > his response below as to the possible of running the bookshare unpack > tool here. if anyone has grater wisdom, especially as some feel it > should be possible, you may want to contact him. > He notes too not getting a response when asking the bookshare people for > guidance. > Karen > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 12:20:54 -0500 (CDT) > From: Ken Scott <admin at shellworld.net> > To: Karen Lewellen <klewellen at shellworld.net> > Subject: Re: bookshare revisited? Re: bookshare.org unpack (fwd) > > Karen, > > All I can tell you on this is what I've told you before. I've tried > running the publicly-available Linux binary here, and it will not work. > I've tried running the so-called "test" binary that you were told about and > it will not work. I asked about them possibly making a copy available for > FreeBSD, and received no answer, and unfortunately they do not make their > source code available, so we'll never know if I might possibly be able to > get it to compile here, unless that policy changes. Find me somebody > that's actually been able to make it work under FreeBSD without having to > completely re-invent the wheel, and I'll be glad to talk to them, but short > of that, I've done all I can do. I have no objection to its being > installed here at all--it makes no difference to me--but if it doesn't > work, it just doesn't work, and to this point it doesn't work. > > -- > Ken, > admin at shellworld.net > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
