bookshare.org unpack question

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Hi janina,
slight variation on this, but did you ever learn more regarding Ken 
scot's bookshare situation? i. e. having an unpack utility that works in 
systems like freebs?
I hope i spelled that right grin.
Karen

On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Janina Sajka wrote:

> I'm still using the same bookshare unpak utility I've used since it was
> first released, and I am having no problems unpacking under Fedora Core
> 4 on any of my five machines that all run FC4.
>
> Jude DaShiell writes:
>> Paul,
>>
>> There are two versions at least of the unpack utility for linux on that
>> site.  A version that is supposed to be able to run on more than just
>> RedHat systems can be downloaded from a different link you need to write
>> support at bookshare.org and ask them to send you.  The normal unpack utility
>> worked on FC2.  I never did try it on FC3 or FC4 since haven't installed
>> FC4 yet and won't have a fast connection for awhile.  The second beta
>> version worked on FC2 slackware, and debian when I tested it.  I hope at
>> least one of those versions can work on FC4 but I'd cross my fingers at
>> this time.  Since you got a coredump, see if you can get the unpack.core
>> file and send it to support at bookshare.org compressed in a zip file.  If
>> neither version of the unpack utility will work for FC4, you'll be on your
>> way to making a valueable contribution to their engineers helping them do
>> the necessary debug work.
>>
>>
>>
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