primax: SANE Backend
Subject:
Re: SANE Backend
From:
Christian Biesinger ####@####.####
Date:
30 Aug 2000 09:36:44 -0000
Message-Id: <39ACD621.4C73268D@biesinger.net>
Hello again
Andre Herms schrieb:
> > Is anyone working on a Sane Backend for primax parallelport scanners?
>
> I do it actually.
>
> It's not a real backend for the scanner. I decided to write a meta backend,
> that contacts to a server. The server code is most of the primaxscan code. So
> it would be easy to update the backend code when primaxscan changes.
Ah, interesting way to do it.
There would have been another way to do it:
The Primax Program is a command-line program.
So, the sane plugin could call this program.
OTOH, this may not be a "clean" solution.
> If you want to help me, you're welcome.
I'd like to.
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