Re: driver dev advice

Hugo van der Kooij (hvdkooij@caiw.nl)
Thu, 25 Mar 1999 07:12:39 +0100 (CET)

On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Washu chan wrote:

> The company is Scanpaq, Inc.
> It is a scanport parallel port TWAIN scanner. Will I be able to work
> without specific hardware information about the scanner? Is TWAIN a
> general purpose API?

No. If you don't have the proper information you will be lost. The more
experience writers are still not planning on writing without having good
hardware reference manuals. So don't think about it unless you can get
them.

On the other hand if they are out of business you may have a change on
actually getting such information from former employees.

Hugo.

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