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Date:      Sat, 08 Dec 2007 18:54:41 +0100
From:      =?iso-8859-15?Q?Micha=EBl_Gr=FCnewald?= <michael.grunewald@laposte.net>
To:        Predrag Punosevac <punosevac@math.arizona.edu>
Cc:        =?iso-8859-15?Q?Micha=EBl_Gr=FCnewald?= <michael.grunewald@laposte.net>, "Jason C. Wells" <jcw@highperformance.net>, freebsd general questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Scanner Compatibility
Message-ID:  <86hcitysv2.fsf@Llea.celt.neu>
In-Reply-To: <475A6CEA.8040500@math.arizona.edu> (Predrag Punosevac's message of "Sat\, 08 Dec 2007 03\:07\:38 -0700")
References:  <4757979F.5020109@highperformance.net> <4757B9CC.4030600@math.arizona.edu> <86wsrpaao5.fsf@Llea.celt.neu> <475A6CEA.8040500@math.arizona.edu>

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Predrag Punosevac <punosevac@math.arizona.edu> writes:

> Let me clarify firstly some things.

Thank you very much for this very detailed answer, it's very nice
from you!

  [SNIP]

> In essence your scanner uses this file to explain the Sane the page
> layout and graphics. So it is not a driver!

If I do understand, this seems a close analogue of PPL files in the
printing world, right?

[SNAP]

> I see no reason why should sane-backhands work any different on
> amd64.

Now you made clear that these binary blobs consist of data (and not
of a cpu program), I do not see either. I will soon be able to tell :)

> On another hand if you are using amd64 that tells me that you
> are running serious production servers so why would you want to attach
> a scanner to  such  machine is not really clear to me.

In fact, I have no serious reason to run amd64 since I use my amd64
computer as a ``user workstation'' and the main benefit from running
amd64 is to manage huge amounts of RAM --- as far as I can tell from
the various docs I have read. My reasons to run amd64 are mainly geeky
or childish :)

> As I said before the handbook is excellent but here is my quick and
> dirty step by step how to for scanners.

[SNIP]

Thanks a lot for this con tribution,
--=20
Cheers,
Micha=EBl



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