[sane-devel] Success (was problems) with CVS-code on OS/2

[Henning Meier-Geinitz]

Hi,

On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 02:22:13AM +0200, Franz Bakan wrote:
> In the meantime I got a second computer and found
> time to test saned. I can report that this feature also works
> with 2 OS/2 Computers over the network. Tested with
> 1.0.11 and current CVS-code.

Good. I feared that the OS/2 specific code got broken over the years
but that doesn't seem to be the case.

> If I don't have dll.conf on the remote computer
> containing 'net'

The remote computer is the one without the scanner, i.e. the one that
usually uses the net backend to connect to the saned on the local
computer?

> I get
> scanimage.exe: sane_start: Out of memory
> when executing
> scanimage 1>image.pnm

This will run the first detected scanner. Is there any local scanner?
If not, can you find out by setting SANE_DEBUG_DLL=255 which backend
is causing this problem?

> I also got a positive feeback that 1.0.11 is working
> with a sharp-scsi (Jx250) and a
> mustek_pp parallelport scanner (Medion MD9890). :-)
> 
> And there is success with some epson USB scanners on OS/2
> (epson-relevant parts of sane and a 'kernel-like' USB-Interface
> compiled with IBM Visualage C++ by a guy in Japan)

I guess a port of libusb to OS/2 would make USB support easier (if
that's possible on OS/2).

> Binaries and info available as part of the new version 0.96 of
> a OS/2 specific frontend (for scanimage)  called TAME/2.
> 
> -> http://www.os2world.com/goran/tame.htm

Should we add a link on mostang.com? That would be on the Realted
Projects page, because it's not a real frontend.

By the way, should we keep the information in README.os2? Is it still
current?

Bye,
  Henning