I always change the names of my brf files before I transfer them. Now I
do, anyway.
This little issue is a carryover from the Book Courier, and its software doesn't give any global options, but presents each filename to edit or leave unchanged before a transfer occurs. You have to press an "OK" button every single time a file is sent. I definitely agree with your proposed change. When transferring Web Braille volumes in particular, I'd never consider letting Book Port use the first line of text as a title. Project Gutenberg's name appears on the first line of their files, so that wouldn't work, either.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Barrett, Don" <Don.Barrett@xxxxxx> To: "Bookport (E-mail)" <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2006 1:44 PM Subject: [bookport] very non-standard, an old issue revisited
I was helping a new user with the Bookport and came to see how non-standard (at least to me) the "send filename as title" option is. I personally would like to see this gone, unless there are users who really like to see the first line of the file as the bookport file name in which case it should be left; I would be surprised.
At least however, it should be checked by default for the new user; unchecked by default makes it operate differently from any Windows-related file transfer utility.
Just my opinion I realize, but I think it unwise to force new users to tweak the first line of every file they want to send to the bp just to get the right filename on the unit. Please check this by default.
Don
