Re: Re[1]: someone working on hp-backend ?

David Mosberger-Tang (David.Mosberger@acm.org)
Mon, 23 Feb 1998 21:12:33 -0800

>>>>> On Mon, 23 Feb 1998 09:11:08 -0500 (EST), Eric Ludlam <eludlam@mathworks.com> said:

Eric> There is an expanded HP backend written by Geoffrey T. Dairiki
Eric> <dairiki@apl.washington.edu> 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> 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'm very interested in seeing the backend replace the current HP
backend in the SANE distribution. If someone ends up making progress
with the new backend, please let me know.

--david

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