Re: Mustek 1200 III EP?

Jon Knight (jon@net.lut.ac.uk)
Tue, 10 Nov 1998 17:25:45 +0000 (GMT)

On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, J. Rhett Aultman wrote:
> When I called Mustek asking if they had any UNIX drivers of any kind, the
> tech rep said "no, but there's been some discussion that generic TWAIN
> drivers have pretty good functionality for that model." I honestly am on
> unfamiliar ground with this sort of thing.

TWAIN is an MS-Windows thing. About as useful to a UNIX user as a
chocolate teapot unless you can persuade the manufacturer to be cool and
ship you the Windows driver source code in order to help write the UNIX
drivers (step forward Plustek for being cool at the moment ;-) ).

Tatty bye,

Jim'll

#!/usr/bin/perl -- -Whois++-client-in-6-lines-of-Perl -Beat-that-Z39.50!
use IO::Socket;sub w{$f=shift;$a{$f}=1;($h,$p,$q)=split("/",$f);$s=
IO::Socket::INET->new(PeerAddr=>"$h:$p")||return;print $s "$q\r\n";while(<$s>)
{next if(/^%/);if(/^# SERVER-TO-ASK/){while(<$s>){$x=$1 if/Name: (.*)\r\n$/;$y
=$1 if/Port: (.*)\r\n$/;$f="$x/$y/$q";@j=(@j,$f)if(/^# END/&&!$a{$f})}}else{
print}}close($s)}@j=shift;while(@j){w(pop(@j))}# whois++.pl host/port/query

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