Subject: Re: twain?
To: None <rh@vip.at>
From: Hauke Fath <hf@melog.de>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/22/1999 10:39:19
At 18:40 19.02.99 +0000, Rene Hexel wrote:
>Jukka Marin wrote:
>
>> NetBSD & twain - anything available?
>
> AFAIK, TWAIN is a combined backend/frontend (GUI) standard for
>Windows.
Wrong.
TWAIN was designed as a platform independent concept; it is quite ppopular
on Macintosh, for example. The TWAIN manager is written in ANSI C.
The API is a bit baroque but not so bad once you get used to it. [I have
written an application layer for TWAIN some years ago.]
See <http://www.twain.org/>
hauke
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