At 9:32 PM -0700 27/9/06, Jim Robertson wrote: >Thanks for the detailed response! I'll digest it gradually and probably ask >you more questions! > >The issue that's easiest to discuss is about the dictation software breaking >the sound files into chunks. That's so that they're smaller than the email >server's allowance for attachments. If a 3 minute mp3 is about 3 Mbytes, and >a dictation goes on for 10 minutes, it may be too big to send to our >transcriptionist as an email attachment. That's why I was wondering about >creating an ftp server on our LAN. You can do FTP. Another handy way to transmit larger files is to buy a .Mac subscription. Then you could drag the files to the iDisk and she could just download them from there from her own Go menu/iDisk. Daly ----------------------