SANE certainly looks to be the way to go. Might it be possible to
	produce a NetBSD package for SANE to make it easier for anyone
	to install?

	http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/netbsd/Packages.txt

		David/absolute

	  -=-  Just adding to the wrinkles on his deathly frown  -=-

On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Julian Coleman wrote:

> Feico Dillema wrote:
> > PINT has been part of NetBSD since 1.2 (I think). However, I don't think
> > support for the Umax scanners is in there, only scanjet/mustek support. Some
> > time ago I added support for some Ricoh scanners to it.
> 
> I started using PiNT with an HP scanner attached to a Sparc.  It worked well,
> although the user-interface isn't wonderful (I did write a curses-based
> front-end but ...).  I stopped using PiNT when I moved to 1.3 because it
> locks up the (Sparc) kernel on bootup.  I'm trying to track this down.
> 
> > I don't know whether the `raw-scsi' backends of SANE will work with NetBSD
> > (maybe with the scsi-lib???) without modification, but SANE is a valuable
> > source of information wrt to scanners. You can find it on the Web at:
> 
> Yes, they will.  I'm using Sane 0.70 with no problems - no patches needed.
> I haven't tried the latest version yet (0.72) and I've only tried it with
> an HP scanner on a Sparc.
> 
> > I've been hesitating with this, as I don't know how much of a standard PINT
> > is and whether its development is actually dead. The effort would be wasted
> > if it would result in incompatible PINT versions floating around. Please 
> > comment.
> 
> As far as I can see, PiNT has stopped being developed (please correct me if
> I'm wrong).  I don't see this as a reason why your Ricoh support couldn't be
> added though.  Maybe it would spur other people to fix/extend PiNT.  However,
> is it worth continuing to push PiNT if SANE is available?  Then again, I'm
> not sure how many people have scanners attached to their NetBSD machines -
> only a handful I'd guess - not that that really matters I suppose.
> 
> J
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