Prisa 620s; SnapScan good news and bad news

Kevin Charter (charter@cs.ualberta.ca)
Wed, 1 Sep 1999 22:19:55 -0600 (MDT)

> Gary Plewa had created some drivers for the Acer Prisa 620S scanner. These were in a form of patches to snapscan. They never seem to have made it into the current release.
>
> Is there a reason why they weren't used? I sent an email to Kevin asking him os the status,but nothing so far. Does anyone know the status of this?

Mea culpa. I got the patches just before I moved back to Canada and forgot
about them. Sorry about that; I'll assemble them this evening.

I have good news about the SnapScan backend. I spent the last few days
revising the backend and I'm happy to report that it works with
scanimage -T now. The code is cleaner and better organized and some
long-standing bugs should soon be dead. This kicks off the first
in a series of long-planned improvements.

Unfortunately, I also have bad news. Late this afternoon there was
some kind of power abberation in my building and whatever it was hosed
part of my filesystem. Naturally, in my haste I hadn't backed up the
revised backend and I lost a few days' work. It's going to make me a
few more days to get things back to the state they were in this
afternoon.

Kevin

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