[3406] in comp.os.os2.announce archive
FREEWARE: Microtek E3 Scanning - FREEWARE
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Freedman)
Wed Sep 24 01:37:57 1997
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU
Date: 24 Sep 1997 01:04:00 -0400
From: jsf@hevanet.com (Jeff Freedman)
Reply-To: jsf@hevanet.com (Jeff Freedman)
Reply-to: jsf@hevanet.com (Jeff Freedman)
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Here's a new alternative for using the Microtek E3 scanner under OS/2:
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I've ported the command-line Linux program "mtekscan" by Jan Shoenepauck, which
allows you to use the scanner with a wide variety of options. The port is made
possible through use of the "ASPI Router" driver by Daniel Dorau, which is
included in the package.
If you have the GCC EMX compiler, you can also recompile the source to support
the Microtek E6. (This is what the author tried it with, but I only have an
E3, so I don't know if it really works in OS/2.)
The package, including source code to "mtekscan", is at hobbes.nmsu.edu in
"/pub/incoming/mtek002.zip", and I've asked that they store it in "unix/util"
or "unix/apps/misc". Please read the "README's" from the original author and
myself.
This is FREEWARE.
Note that there are Linux programs supporting several other SCSI scanners
(including the ambitious SANE project), and I think most if not all of them
could be ported in the same manner. Plus, there are TCK/TK and X-windows GUI's
to these programs which we might be able to port and run under XFREE86.
As I've only been able to give this program minimal testing (using an E3 on an
Adaptec 2940 under Warp4), I'd appreciate any comments about problems or
successes.
-- Jeff Freedman
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