bookshare.org unpack

[Karen Lewellen]

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
>>
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