primax: HELP WANTED
Subject:
Re: HELP WANTED
From:
Christian Biesinger ####@####.####
Date:
31 Aug 2000 11:31:21 -0000
Message-Id: <39AE4284.19497D6E@biesinger.net>
Andre Herms schrieb:
>
> Hi
>
> Im writing the sane backend for Primax scanners.
> And I need some help.
I'd like to help you.
> A short desciption waht is planed:
> The sane backend is not the scanner driver, its just a client.
> The server talks to the scanner.
>
> The server:
> It reads the data from the scanner and writes ist in raw format to a file.
> the client can read it from there.
How does the client communicate with the server?
TCP/IP?
If so, why is the raw data not sent back using TCP/IP? Don't you think
that would be better?
>
> For making it work, there are some thing to do:
>
> 1. clean up the primaxscan code. the scanner control code must be seperated
> >from the output code (tiff/raw).
Probably won't be too difficult.
> 2. a clean makefile is needed for compiling the sane backend. I'm not good in
> writing makefiles. Who can help?
I think I could do this.
> 3. The server shall read the settings from a config file and save them there.
> I think this is quiet easy to do with fprintf() and fscanf(). Could anyone
> write some functions for this.
> settings to save and read are:
> int timeout
> int warmup
> int speed
> int nice_level
> char[100] password // for accessing the advanced options of the server
> calibration data // this maybe better n another file.
I'd like to do this as well, though I've got no idea what you mean with
calibration data and nice_level.
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