From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 31 14:14:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA03297 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 14:14:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jumping-spider.aracnet.com (jumping-spider.aracnet.com [205.159.88.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA03291 for ; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 14:14:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from beattie@aracnet.com) Received: from shell2.aracnet.com (IDENT:beattie@shell2.aracnet.com [205.159.88.20]) by jumping-spider.aracnet.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id OAA11165; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 14:11:54 -0700 Received: from localhost by shell2.aracnet.com (8.8.7) id OAA19930; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 14:13:09 -0700 Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 14:13:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Beattie To: Stefan Eggers cc: Luigi Rizzo , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: lpt port scanners (was: Re: What options for BW quickcam on 2.2.7 ? ) In-Reply-To: <199808310818.KAA06304@semyam.dinoco.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Stefan Eggers wrote: > > the effort, but for scanners etc it would be a very nice thing to do > > given that a lot of scanners on the market now seem to use the parallel > > port). > > If I knew a company which manufactures them and gives out detailed > information about the protocol used I'd probably have one already as a > scanner would be a nice addition to my machine. Anybody knowing one > who does have documentation and gives them out w/o NDA or other silly > things preventing real use in FreeBSD? > Microtek has them on it's ftp site. I think UMAX has them on it's webpage. I'm currently trying to get it out of adara. Brian Beattie | If my corporate life has taught me anything, beattie@aracnet.com | it was that running multi-million dollar www.aracnet.com/~beattie | projects in no way implied managerial competence. | Tony Porczyk ( in comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc ) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message