[sane-devel] xsane issues on Mac OS X

Jim George jim.george@blueyonder.co.uk
Thu, 11 Apr 2002 21:43:27 +0100


Paul,

    I'm not aware of any Mac OS X client that can 'talk' to a sane backend
on a Linux backend.

    My scanner is a Mustek 1200CP+ flatbed parallel port scanner.

Jim
----- Original Message -----
From: "paul beard" <paulbeard@mac.com>
To: "Jim George" <jim.george@blueyonder.co.uk>
Cc: <sane-devel@mostang.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2002 3:57 PM
Subject: Re: [sane-devel] xsane issues on Mac OS X


>
>
> Jim George wrote:
> > Paul,
> >
> > this may come over as selfish, appologies if it does, but when you get
> > a frontend built that I can use across the network (I have my scanner
> > plugged into my linux box), please let me know so that I can do some
> > testing with you/for you?
>
> but of course: I wish I had more to contribute to open source in
> general.
>
> > Either scanimage or xsane will do to begin testing with.
>
> I'm confused. You have a scanner working on a linux box and want
> to use it how? On OS X? doesn't xsane work for you now?
>
> > Are you going to pass the resultant compiled code on to the 'fink'
> > project which takes linux code and ports it to Mac?
>
> in any way I can: fink has been a great help to me.
>
> --
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