> Stephen Williams wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Oh, and I'm the high speed scanner guy (or one of them) and I would be
> > delighted with just adding JFIF an TIFF/G4 frame types. A lot of other
> > scanner guys are also happy with this abbreviated list, so somehow I don't
> > see the flood of frame types you are decrying, though I don't care if
> > the types are communicated as ordinal numbers, arbitrary text strings,
> > or tuned chirps of trained crickets, as long as I can interpret them fast
> > and easy.
>
> Hi Stephen,
>
> I see no advantage of using numbers for it, but it makes it much more
> easy for the frontend programmers to support new formats and it is
> much more easy to add new formats to the standard because you do
> not need a new sane.h file.
What is missing here?
I spoke about a string! ;-)
>
>
> If an old frontend connects to a newer backend that uses a new format
> it can say "OK, I got the format image/blah and do not know what to do with it"
> that is much better then a "I got the format 172 ..."
>
>
Bye
Oliver
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