[bookshare-discuss] Re: Beta feedback and questions

  • From: "LW" <LW105@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 09:01:12 -0600

Hi,
I get the same problem when opening a bookshare file in Duxbury. I don't
know how to solve it.

Hugs,
Beth

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Rick.Roderick@xxxxxx>
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 7:40 AM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Beta feedback and questions


> Hi everyone,
>
> I have been downloading quite a few newspapers on the site and have a
couple
> of questions:
>
> 1.  Except for Monday, July 19, the New York Times has been very complete.
> However, the Wall Street Journal issues are very short, and I am finding
> that they seem imcomplette..  This morning's is about 107k long.  This
seems
> to be true both in Daisy and BRF.
>
> 2.  When I download a file here at work, I am asked if I want to open the
> file.  I assume this is because Duxbury is on my system here.  When I do
so,
> I get messages about Depth exceeded" and "width exceeded.  I am using a 25
> lines and 40 characters per line.  What does Bookshare use?
>
> 3.  This question may be related.  I am finding that with a lot of
Bookshare
> files, I seem to be getting linefeeds without carriage returns.  When I
put
> my Braille Lite Millennium 40 in "show character mode", I get J's and not
> M's.  This can cause the BLT not to show news lines correctly, and the
> advance bar will sometimes skip in this situation.  The old Qedit can fix
> this, but it only works with fairly small files in pure DOS.  Does anyone
> have a solution for this?
>
> Rick Roderick
>
>



Other related posts: