From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 11 12:22:03 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA16802 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 12:22:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA16797 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 12:21:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id VAA24330 for ; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 21:21:24 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id VAA17153 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 21:21:24 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id VAA12207 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Thu, 11 Jan 1996 21:05:22 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199601112005.VAA12207@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: SCSI Scanner anybody? To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Thu, 11 Jan 1996 21:05:21 +0100 (MET) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from "Peter Wemm" at Jan 11, 96 11:22:35 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Peter Wemm wrote: > > I guess this is going to be a "You gotta be kidding me!" type question, > but does anybody know what would be involved in driving a SCSI scanner > (eg: something like an Epson GT-8500, HP Scanjet 3C, Sharp JX330 etc) I've scanned an immense amount of pictures today, with an HP Scanjet (4C, i think). More to follow later, i'll make a port out of the program. NB: this is _not_ portable to other scanners, due to the design of the HP's SCSI handling. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)