From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 1 14:15:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA11894 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 1 Feb 1997 14:15:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from proxy3.ba.best.com (root@proxy3.ba.best.com [206.184.139.14]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA11886 for ; Sat, 1 Feb 1997 14:15:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from bsampley.vip.best.com (bsampley.vip.best.com [206.184.160.196]) by proxy3.ba.best.com (8.8.5/8.8.3) with SMTP id OAA06732 for ; Sat, 1 Feb 1997 14:13:52 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <32F3BFB9.167EB0E7@best.com> Date: Sat, 01 Feb 1997 14:12:09 -0800 From: Burton Sampley X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-BETA_A i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: [Fwd: Hand Held Boarded Scanners] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Here's a copy of an email message sent to Logitech customer support and the response. It really boils my blood to see a company like Logitech only supporting Micro$oft OS's. Don't they realize that there are many other OS's beside Micro$oft and that some of their soon-to-be-former customer's might actually want their system to something more than one task at a time without crashing? Customer_Support@LOGITECH.COM wrote: > > Customer Support > 02/01/97 11:25 AM > > I'm running FreeBSD 2.2 -Beta Unix (based on BSD 4.4 lite from U.C. > Berkeley). Is a Unix driver available for the scanner board scanman 256 > hand held scanner? If so, which Unix is it for? Is the source code > avaiable for modification for my Operating System? Is a release of > FotoTouch available as well (and the sorce)? > > Hello Burton, > > Logitech does not support the use of its scanners in environments other > than DOS, Windows v3.1x or Windows 95 (depending on the model scanner > and the version of software being used). There are currently no plans > to support other platforms such as Unix, OS/2 or Windows NT. The > information necessary to create a driver for ScanMan 256 is > proprietary, and therefore unavailable, as is source code. > > Regards, > > Kevin > Logitech Customer Support > > Email: Customer_Support@logitech.com > Web Site: http://www.logitech.com > FTP Site: ftp://ftp.logitech.com/pub/TechSupport BBS: (510)795-0408 > FaxBack (U.S. & Canada): (800)245-0000 Sales: (800)231-7717 -- Burton Sampley Email: bsampley@best.com | home page: http://www.best.com/~bsampley