[Promotion-technology] Companion and Unzipping Files

[Mike Freeman]

I am virtually certain that the answer is "no". In fact, I suspect that 
the minimal unzip that the Humanware Companion does with talking books 
does not include use of decompression algorithms as NLS books are not 
compressed but merely use the zip file format to coherently group all 
files in a talking book into one archive. Put another way, the Humanware 
Companion merely reads the zip file directory to determine offsets and 
sizes of the various files within the archive for extraction to the book 
subfolder.

Bottom line: you'll have to use the Windows unzip facility or the unzip 
facility of another program and create the folders with the resulting 
files in them for the "other Books" folder manually. Humanware Companion 
will copy these folders to the $VROtherBooks" folder on your Stream just 
fine, though.

Mike Freeman

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Linda" <Linda777 at insightbb.com>
To: "Committee on the Promotion, Evaluation and Advancement of 
Technology" <promotion-technology at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 1:25 PM
Subject: Re: [Promotion-technology] Companion and Unzipping Files


Does anyone know if the Stream Companion will unzip files other than NLS
books, such as a disc I put in my documents and zipped and just want to
select it with its own title and put it in My Music folder?  Or books 
that
go in the Other Books folder whose files are all zipped into a one book 
with
a title, which I assume could be considered a sub folder?
Linda


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