bookshare.org unpack question

Karen Lewellen klewellen at shellworld.net
Fri Sep 9 10:39:35 EDT 2005


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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