Re: SANE Net backend suggestion...

Nick Lamb (njl98r@ecs.soton.ac.uk)
Thu, 2 Dec 1999 14:36:41 +0000

On Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 06:17:25PM -0800, Brian Macy wrote:
> A bit of a thought that I've been interested in for quite some time...
> what do you all think of having the net backend writing the data during
> a scan to a file. At the same time a thread (or whatever is appropriate)
> writes the file out the data socket. That way if you have a slow network
> connection (which it can easily be slower than a SCSI scanner) your
> scanner doesn't play the two steps forward, one step back game.

Is this really a problem for a lot of readers? It must not be a feature
of the net midend in any case, if you'd like to write a midend which
buffers data to disk I'm sure such readers would be grateful. There
may even be non-networked applications which would benefit from such
an optional buffer.

For me at least (nice HP scanners on decent PCI SCSI card, 100Mbit net)
it was very much faster to send data over the network than down the
already clogged up SCSI bus to the disk. I am too busy to even try
the brand new A3 scanner which arrived last week (not an HP this time)
so I must get back to work now.

Nick.

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