Christian Bucher (bucher@vernetzt.at)
Sun, 27 Jun 1999 12:06:05 +0200
Some time ago I expanded the sane epson backend for use with epson
scanners connected through parallel port. Epson delivered the scanner
with something called "bidirectional parallel port" wich I saw beside
that only in one of my notebooks. I adapeted some code from older
software wich supported epson scanners and located the driver in user
space. I think that was the best choice at this time. But know I've
hope that with parport it's possible to make a better implementation.
I've some questions wich are probably easy to answer for you:
- does someone know what the difference between this bidirectional and
other parallel ports are?
- do you think it's possible to read from the scanner with other
parallel ports?
- do you think it's possible to read from the scanner using the
lp, parport driver etc. ?
- do the parport driver supports bidirectional ports too?
- if not, whats the best ways to implement something that will do
all of the above?
thanks a lot
christian
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