On Mon, 16 Apr 2001 20:16:51 +0100
Nigel Feltham <nigel.feltham@libertysurf.co.uk> wrote:
> Some SCSI scanners can already be used under WINE running windows twain
> applications using an emulated ASPI layer and Printer port scanners work by
> allowing SANE to allow windows apps to directly access printer port - if this
> can be made to work for USB as well and a SANE wrapper could be written to
> appear to the Linux Frontend as a normal SANE device and to the Windows Twain
> driver as a Standard Windows Twain application then the only difference to
> the user between a true SANE backend and a windows Driver using the SANE
> wrapper would be having 2 dialogs displayed (the SANE scan dialog and the
> TWAIN scan dialog) but many windows twain drivers can have their scan dialog
> bypassed.
Oy. The above sure sounds ugly to me. I do not use windows or even own a copy
of windows. The above describes a Lindows installation with layer after layer
of drivers and emulations... If you gonna do this why even use Linux?
Best
M. Peck Dickens
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