Re: Starting a discussion about SANE and TWAIN...
Lars Hanke (hanke@janeway.physik.uni-dortmund.de)
Tue, 17 Aug 1999 15:26:24 +0100
> From what I gather by skimming over the TWAIN docs, it is calling functions
> from DLLs using a tokenized, single-entry-point system.
> This is conceptually similar to using a streamed interface and could
> probably be easily transformed into that.
> > Of course using pipes is the simplest way to do it, but as far as I know there
> > are no pipes on Windows and Mac.
> We are talking about interfacing SANE frontends from a TWAIN layer. That is,
> we are talking about an environment, where SANE frontends can run. That
> assumes we have something like Cygwin or similar, which gives us Posixish
> features. For a fully native solution, other communication paths are
> possible, as streamed transfers can take place on about any medium.
Just something that raced through my mind:
What about using a TCP/IP socket. TCP/IP support is available on all
current platforms as a standard OS component AFAIK.
Just an idea,
Lars. (hanke@janeway.physik.uni-dortmund.de)
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