[sane-devel] Question on scanimage -f

[Dieter Jurzitza]

Dear listmembers,
I did not see the previous posting from M. Allan Noah, but in general I 
totally agree with Johannes Meixner: if one introduces such an option (what I 
would consider positive) the backward compatibility should not be broken.
The only thing I am worried in this regard is whether it would be better to 
add something like a %n (what would be consistent in "scanimage grammar" or 
whether a "\n" should be preffered (this one goes to the C-programmers 
fraction ...).
However, I could live with any decision, if people share my point that it 
would simplify parsing individual scanners from the "scanimage -f" output.
Thank you very much for looking into this,
thank you for a great program,
take care




Dieter Jurzitza

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-----------------------------------------------------------Am Dienstag, 27. 
Mai 2008 10:17:03 schrieb Johannes Meixner:
> Hello,
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> And how can I then get the output in one single line?
> (without using "tr -d '\n'" ;-)
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> It would break backward compatibility.
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