More Problems With Bookshare.org

More Problems With Bookshare.org

[John J. Boyer]

Hello,
I have registered with bookshare.org and am waiting for them to verify my 
blindness with NLS. Meanwhile, I've been exploring the site. Public domain 
books can be downloaded and unzipped using the DOS pkunzip program under 
dosemu. I tried to download the unpack tool so I could test it. However, 
Lynx just flashes something too fast to read (I am using BRLTTY.) When I 
looked at the source html, I found that the download for the unpack tool 
was in a form instead of being a simple link. Even commercial Web sites 
don't put links to stuff that can be downloaded in a form.
The public domain books which I have downloaded are excellent. However, 
they have to do a lot of work on their Web site, and they have to support 
Linux as well as Windows and Macs. If the unpack tool would run under 
dosemu that would be ok, but I can't even download the unpack tool!
Meanwhile, I'm certainly not going to pay them anything until they make 
their stuff accessible for me.
John


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Re: More Problems With Bookshare.org

[Dave Mielke]

Hi:

I've gotten to know a lady at bookshare.org, and she's accepted me as a person
who can give them feedback which they'll pay attention to regarding Linux. I'll
chase the issue of downloading the unpack tool.

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Re: More Problems With Bookshare.org

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, John J. Boyer wrote:

> Public domain books can be downloaded and unzipped using the DOS pkunzip
> program under dosemu.

FYI: ... then you should be able to unzip them directly from native Linux as
well with the "unzip" command.


Nicolas

Re: More Problems With Bookshare.org

[John J. Boyer]

Nicolas,
Thanks. That worked. I was trying to use gunzip.
John
On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, 
Nicolas Pitre wrote:

> On Sat, 1 Jun 2002, John J. Boyer wrote:
> 
> > Public domain books can be downloaded and unzipped using the DOS pkunzip
> > program under dosemu.
> 
> FYI: ... then you should be able to unzip them directly from native Linux as
> well with the "unzip" command.
> 
> 
> Nicolas
> 
> 
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Re: More Problems With Bookshare.org

[Cheryl Homiak]

es, you can unzip public domain books  with the unzip command.

Re: More Problems With Bookshare.org

[John J. Boyer]

Bookshare.org has another problem. A few weeks ago Lynx would work nicely 
on the demo page. Now it will not go past screen 3 whenyou press the space 
bar. Moreover, something on screen 2 causes the Grade 2 translator in 
BRLTTY to freeze. You have to kill BRLTTY as root. With the translator off 
it works.
John


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Re: More Problems With Bookshare.org

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by John J. Boyer on June 1, 2002, at 14:47]

>Bookshare.org has another problem. A few weeks ago Lynx would work nicely
>on the demo page. Now it will not go past screen 3 whenyou press the space
>bar.

This doesn't happen here. I can get all the way to screen 11 just by pressing
the space bar 10 times.

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Phone: 1-613-726-0014 | Ottawa, Ontario   | Word of God. Please contact me
EMail: dave@mielke.cc | Canada  K2A 1H7   | if you're concerned about Hell.
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Re: More Problems With Bookshare.org

[Mike Gorse]

John and Dave,

I emailed Alison last night to let her know about the download problems.
I suspect that it is similar to the problems we were having signing up,
although I have no idea what could have been going on.  They seem to have
fixed the sign-up form, though.

The unpack tool that they have for downloads is a gui application and will
not run under dosemu.  Someone is apparently working on porting the tool
to Linux.

-- Michael Gorse / AIM:linvortex / http://mgorse.dhs.org:8000 --

Re: More Problems With Bookshare.org

[Cheryl Homiak]

I had the impression that the unpack tool will work only in Windows, so i
haven't spent my money on bookshare.
And I'm also not sure you are allowed to even download the unpack tool until you
are authorized as blind.

Cheryl