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[Igor Chaves Cananea]

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	Igor Chaves Cananéa (ICC)
        Brazil, Recife - PE


E-mails: icc@cin.ufpe.br
	 igor.cananea@globo.com

On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Shailendra Mehta wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> Thanks for your help.
> I have Xsane downloaded on windows.
> But I want to change the GUI to make it more like other 
> windows applications.
> For that is net backend available as windows library?
> 
> Thanks again in advance
> 
> Regards
> Shailendra
> 
> 
> On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Andre Herms wrote:
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> > Hi,
> > 
> > > Hi all,
> > > I am familiar with one hylafax package in
> > > which I was able to see network protocol by
> > > telneting the server "telnet <serverip> 4559"
> > > & you can enter "HELP" it used to show help.
> > > I was able to login with "USER" command & so on.
> > > But I am not getting any such HELP on saned server.
> > > What are the commands that need to be given so as
> > > to get the protocol working?
> > > The listed protocol in documentation contains
> > > "SANE_NET_CANCEL" etc which doesn't tell how the protocol
> > > to be implemented.
> > > Lastly any windows port is available for net backend?
> > >
> > > Thanks & regards
> > > Shailendra
> > 
> > The sane network protocol is no plain text protocol. So you cannot use telnet 
> > to trace it. It is more or less the sun rpc protocol. Nummeric parameters are 
> > transmitted as 4 byte of data, not as string. In the sane documantation you 
> > can find how it is encoded. But don't try to reimplement it by the specs 
> > given in the documentation. They are not up to date anymore. 
> > 
> > If you want to use it with windows - it should work. You can get the net 
> > backend code and compile it. At least with cygwin this works and so XSane 
> > runs under windows. 
> > 
> > But if you really want to do some more with the protocol - don't waste your 
> > time. It is really ugly and has some bad race conditions and design failures. 
> > 
> > Bye 
> > 	Andre
> > 
> > - -- 
> > Andre Herms                   mailto:aherms@cs.uni-magdeburg.de
> >                               http://www.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~aherms
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