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From: Richard Chang <richardc@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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Subject: Re: hpscan
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On Sun, 21 Apr 1996, J Wunsch wrote:

> As Richard Chang wrote:
> 
> > 	I am trying to get the hpscan port to work.... How is the 
> > /dev/scanner device created?  Any help would be appreciated.
> 
> Is it really using /dev/scanner?  I thought the FreeBSD port were
> using /dev/pt0 (the `processor target' device).  Try symlinking this
> one to /dev/scanner, just in case.

	Hmmm, it doesn't say in the README anywhere.

> Needless to say, you need to have a kernel with a pt0 device.

	Oh okay... I wonder how well will the hpscan program work...

Richard