From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from ip15.shellworld.net ([64.49.204.174] helo=server2.shellworld.net ident=root) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1DvaJR-00030z-00 for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 08:38:05 -0400 Received: from server2.shellworld.net (klewellen@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by server2.shellworld.net (8.12.10/8.12.8) with ESMTP id j6LCc4fo071795 for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 12:38:04 GMT (envelope-from klewellen@shellworld.net) Received: from localhost (klewellen@localhost) by server2.shellworld.net (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) with ESMTP id j6LCc4HV071792 for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2005 08:38:04 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: server2.shellworld.net: klewellen owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 08:38:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Karen Lewellen To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." In-Reply-To: <20050721121958.GD4693@rednote.net> Message-ID: References: <050721001536.22803003@dahmer.vistech.net> <20050721121958.GD4693@rednote.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: Re: bookshare.org unpack X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 12:38:05 -0000 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, 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@braille.uwo.ca [mailto:speakup-bounces@braille.uwo.ca] >> On Behalf Of JAMES DOSMAN >> Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 10:16 PM >> To: speakup@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@braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup@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@freestandards.org http://a11y.org > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >