Changes

Version 17 of Read Etexts solves this problem by converting RTF to a plain text file automatically.  So now, in addition to the great classics of literature by dead authors that Project Gutenberg gives you you can also read fairly current science fiction from Baen Books.

Version 17 of Read Etexts solves this problem by converting RTF to a plain text file automatically.  So now, in addition to the great classics of literature by dead authors that Project Gutenberg gives you you can also read fairly current science fiction from Baen Books.

You can use the Browse Activity to download RTF files from the site.  Be sure to choose the RTF file, not the zipped up RTF file.  The zipped version ''should'' work, but the website does something to it that keeps it from getting a proper MIME type.  I was able to use Browse on my XO running Sugar .82 to download RTFs.  If Browse doesn't work for you an alternative is to use another computer to download the file to a thumb drive.

You can use the Browse Activity to download RTF files from the site.  Be sure to choose the RTF file, not the zipped up RTF file.  The zipped version ''should'' work, but the website does something to it that keeps it from getting a proper MIME type.  I was able to use Browse on my XO running Sugar .82 to download RTFs.  If Browse doesn't work for you an alternative is to use another computer to download the file to a thumb drive, then copy that file from the thumb drive to the Journal.

When you restore the file for the first time be sure to do it with Read Etexts, ''not'' Write.  Write does something to the file that prevents Read Etexts from being able to convert it properly.  Once you open it with Read Etexts it will be given the Read Etexts icon and will open with the correct Activity by default.

When you Restore the file for the first time be sure to do it with Read Etexts, ''not'' Write.  Write does something to the file that prevents Read Etexts from being able to convert it properly.  Once you open it with Read Etexts it will be given the Read Etexts icon and will open with the correct Activity by default.

I'm dedicating this feature to the author Howard L. Myers.  His book ''The Creatures of Man'' is available for download from the website.  Back in 1974 I was graduating from High School and subscribing to ''Galaxy'' magazine.  ''Galaxy'' ran a couple of cracking good yarns by Myers, writing as "Verge Foray", in the May and June issues.  I was really looking forward to more in the series, and even wrote an incoherent letter to the magazine asking for more Verge Foray stories.  I only found out this year why no more stories ever came.  Howard L. Myers had died in 1971.

I'm dedicating this feature to the author Howard L. Myers.  His book ''The Creatures of Man'' is available for download from the website.  Back in 1974 I was graduating from High School and subscribing to ''Galaxy'' magazine.  ''Galaxy'' ran a couple of cracking good yarns by Myers, writing as "Verge Foray", in the May and June issues.  I was really looking forward to more in the series, and even wrote an incoherent letter to the magazine asking for more Verge Foray stories.  I only found out this year why no more stories ever came.  Howard L. Myers had died in 1971.