Re: SANE release 0.74 available

Rogier Wolff (R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl)
Mon, 3 Aug 1998 08:54:10 +0200 (MEST)

David Mosberger-Tang wrote:
> An important change as far as documentation is concerned is that now
> every backend is being described by a short "description" file (see
> backend/FOO.desc). If you're maintaining a SANE backend, please make
> sure that you keep that file up to date. That way, we can ensure that
> the web page (http://www.mostang.com/sane/sane-backends.html) always
> contains the latest list of supported devices.

Ok. Did I do this right?

Roger.

/home/wolff> diff -u sane-0.74/backend/tamarack.desc.orig sane-0.74/backend/tamarack.desc
--- sane-0.74/backend/tamarack.desc.orig Mon Jul 13 20:48:59 1998
+++ sane-0.74/backend/tamarack.desc Mon Aug 3 08:50:55 1998
@@ -1 +1,27 @@
+; SANE Backend specification file
+;
+; It's basically emacs-lisp --- so ";" indicates comment to end of line.
+; All syntactic elements are keyword tokens, followed by a string or
+; keyword argument, as specified.
+;
+; ":backend" *must* be specified.
+; All other information is optional (but what good is the file without it?).
+;
:backend "tamarack" ; name of backend
+:version "0.5" ; version of backend
+:status :beta ; :alpha, :beta, :stable, :new
+;
+; Sorry, no manpage yet. Anybody want to write one?
+;:manpage "sane-tamarack" ; name of manpage (if it exists)
+
+:devicetype :scanner
+
+:mfg "Tamarack" ; name a manufacturer
+:url "http://www.tamarack.net/"
+:model "Artiscan 6000C" ; name models for above-specified mfg.
+:comment "3 pass, 300 DPI; please report succes to R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl"
+:model "Artiscan 8000C" ; name models for above-specified mfg.
+:comment "3 pass, 400 DPI; please report succes to R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl"
+:model "Artiscan 12000C" ; name models for above-specified mfg.
+:comment "3 pass, 600 DPI"
+
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