bookshare.org unpack question

[Karen Lewellen]

Hi Janina,
Apparently they went to the source.  I have a note from Ken saying he has 
the unpack utility  here now.  I am not a bookshare member...yet, but the 
program can tell I have none of their files here.
Thanks for your help here,
Karen

On Fri, 9 Sep 2005, Janina Sajka wrote:

> Hi, Karen:
>
> I had an email exchange with Jim Fruchterman about it and someone from
> Book Share was supposed to contact me to take it further, but that
> didn't happen. I've just written Jim again.
>
>
> Karen Lewellen writes:
>> 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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