[bksvol-discuss] Re: E-mail Attachment Braille Files

  • From: "Julie & Miss Mercy, avon representative" <mercy421@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 22:00:06 -0400

Got it this time. Thanks! I didn't get the first one. Take care.
--
Julie Morales
Email & Windows/MSN Messenger: mercy421@xxxxxxxxxxx Skype mercy0421 AIM 
mercylab421
http://juliemorales.avonrepresentative.com/
Currently in Winchester Regional, Virginia Mostly Cloudy, Thunder In The 
Vicinity; Lightning Observed 73°F Wind:W-260° at 5mph
"Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere may be happy."

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Linda Adams" <ladams@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 9:48 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: E-mail Attachment Braille Files


Hi, Julie.  I sent the file to your e-mail address, but you must not have
gotten it, so I will try to send it from the list.  It will be a BRF
attachment.

Linda Adams

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Julie & Miss Mercy, avon representative" <mercy421@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 7:34 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: E-mail Attachment Braille Files


> I'd like to have that file, too, please? Thanks! Take care.
> --
> Julie Morales
> Email & Windows/MSN Messenger: mercy421@xxxxxxxxxxx Skype mercy0421 AIM
> mercylab421
> http://juliemorales.avonrepresentative.com/
> Currently in Winchester Regional, Virginia Partly Cloudy, Rain With
> Thunder
> In The Vicinity; Lightning Observed 73°F Wind:NW-310° at 6mph
> I don't mind going nowhere, as long as it's an interesting path.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "siss52" <siss52@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 8:05 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: E-mail Attachment Braille Files
>
>
>
> Thanks, Evan.  I am the friend of whom Linda Adams spoke.  However, I was
> making the mistake of trying to save it in SAVE AS, instead of SAVE
> ATTACHMENT, and I was trying to open it.  I took your suggestion and saved
> it on my compact flash without opening it, and that worked.
>
> By the way:  The file was a transcription of the chatroom meeting which
> took
> place this week on validation.  Linda transcribed a summary of the
> session,
> organizing it for easy accessability.  She did this so that Julie Morales
> and I could know what went on, and her transcription was superb!!!!
>
> Thank you, Linda.
>
> Sue S.
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: Evan Reese
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 6:17 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: E-mail Attachment Braille Files
>
>
> The file was apparently sent successfully.  What is your friend trying to
> do
> with the file?  Do they want to read it on a Braille display, or open it
> in
> a word processor such as Word or WordPad?  Windows doesn't know by default
> how to open a brf file the way it does a txt or rtf file.  You have to
> tell
> Windows what program it needs to use.  Windows has a list of such
> extensions
> and the programs that are associated with them, and brf isn't yet on the
> list apparently.
>
> If this is just a one time thing, your friend could just rename the file
> with an rtf or txt extension without actually converting it, then Windows
> will use whatever program it usually uses to open such files.  If they are
> trying to read it on a Braille display, if they have a Compact Flash card,
> then they can just keep the brf extension and copy the file to the card
> without opening it.  If your friend regularly wants to open brf files in a
> word processor such as WordPad or Word, then they need to go into the Open
> With section and read down the list of choices of programs Windows lists
> and
> select the one they want Windows to use.
>
> Evan
>
>  ----- Original Message ----- 
>  From: Linda Adams
>  To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>  Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2007 3:51 PM
>  Subject: [bksvol-discuss] E-mail Attachment Braille Files
>
>
>  Hi, Everyone.  I just tried to send a file done in braille on the Braille
> Lite as an e-mail attachment to someone.  My machine let me insert the
> file,
> which I gave a BRF extension, as an attachment, but when the person tried
> to
> open, the message was that Windows had to find a program to open it
> through
> the control panel.  Is there a simple, straight-forward to send a braille
> file intact by e-mail, or must it always be converted to text or Word
> first?
> If there is a simple way using a Compact Flash card, please let me know
> step
> by step.  Thank you.
>
>  Linda Adams
>
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