Another platform for sane

Hello,

A friend gave me his Agfa snapscan 310 SCSI scanner. I
connected it
up to my old VAX at home which runs VMS (aka OpenVMS) and
begun
the quest for some software to use it. I came across sane,
downloaded
version 1.0.17 and gave it a go. I was very impressed by the
portability of the code and had very little difficulty
getting it to
compile under VMS 7.1.

After some coding (mainly an additional section in
sanei_scsi.c plus
a few run time routines not provided by VMS), I now have
scanimage
working and producing scans. At the moment it is sort of
proof-of-concept level as I only implemented very basic
synchronous
SCSI communication and a single statically linked backend.
Hopefully,
in the future, I will find time to improve on this now that
I know
that the basics work.

I have only tried the snapscan backend so far as I have no
other
scanners to test with. Hopefully, other (SCSI) backends
should be
just as easy to get working. I have not looked at frontends
other than scanimage. I have also compiled the code on a Dec
Alpha
machine running VMS with no problems, although I do not have
a
scanner attached to that machine to test with. I suspect it
should
also compile ok on Itanium machines running VMS and hope to
test
this shortly.

I don't suppose there is much interest in this out there,
but I
thought I would people know that it can be done, just in
case
someone somewhere is interested.

Thanks to all the developers for providing an excellent
software
package.

Regards,
Peter.

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Hi,

On 2006-05-22 13:04, Peter Coghlan wrote:
> A friend gave me his Agfa snapscan 310 SCSI scanner. I
connected it
> up to my old VAX at home which runs VMS (aka OpenVMS)
and begun
> the quest for some software to use it. I came across
sane, downloaded
> version 1.0.17 and gave it a go. I was very impressed
by the
> portability of the code and had very little difficulty
getting it to
> compile under VMS 7.1.

Thanks for your report!

SANE builds on quite a lot of different platforms so most of
the
typical portability problems should be fixed meanwhile.

> I have only tried the snapscan backend so far as I have
no other
> scanners to test with. Hopefully, other (SCSI) backends
should be
> just as easy to get working. I have not looked at
frontends
> other than scanimage. I have also compiled the code on
a Dec Alpha
> machine running VMS with no problems, although I do not
have a
> scanner attached to that machine to test with. I
suspect it should
> also compile ok on Itanium machines running VMS and
hope to test
> this shortly.

Even without scanners you can test with the test backend
(e.g.
scanimage -d test --test or use the test patterns and check
if the
images look correct).

> I don't suppose there is much interest in this out
there, but I
> thought I would people know that it can be done, just
in case
> someone somewhere is interested.

Please send the patch to the list! Even if we don't include
it now, it
may be useful for someone.

Bye,
  Henning

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