Re: Re[2]: HP Scanjet 4p and NetBSD/Sparc

David Mosberger-Tang (David.Mosberger@acm.org)
Wed, 28 Jan 1998 21:15:54 -0800

>>>>> On Wed, 28 Jan 1998 08:15:23 -0500 (EST), Eric Ludlam <eludlam@mathworks.com> said:

Eric> "Geoffrey T. Dairiki" <dairiki@apl.washington.edu> made an
Eric> expanded HP backend with much more of the SCL backend
Eric> implemented for various HP scanners. I had been hoping to
Eric> expand on his work, and even got the documentation from HP,
Eric> but my other GNU projects started taking up what little spare
Eric> time I have.

Eric> In his last post to this newsgroup, the patch is at:

Eric>
Eric> ftp://irving.apl.washington.edu/pub/sane/sane-0.68-newhp.patch.README
Eric> ftp://irving.apl.washington.edu/pub/sane/sane-0.68-newhp.patch.gz

Eric> and is for sane-0.68

Eric> The patch works well, but his changes need to be merged into
Eric> the HP backend proper. If the links above don't work, I still
Eric> have the patch.

I'd be happy to replace the current HP backend with Geoffrey's as soon
as we're reasonably certain that the new backend works at least as
well as the old one. I just want to avoid shipping two different HP
backends with SANE (no need to confuse new users that way).

--david

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