i put a couple of scripts on sources that you may
be able to bend to your own will
/n/sources/contrib/quanstro/^(camera: cameracp mkthumb)
these scripts automate three things, and facilliate
a manumatic process for resetting cranky usb devices.
0. camera: starts a fat fs on the camera's storage. it's assumed to
be a cannon.
1. unique new pictures are copied to /n/other/pictures/yyyymmdd
2. if a usb error occurs that needs the device replugged,
cameracp waits for the user to do that
3. mkthumb makes reasonable-sized plan 9 image thumbnails
(15%) from the images. full size images tend to crash plan 9
terminals. i should probablly use richard's resize, but since i keep
these things around, i might as well burn cpu. my i7 does about
200 thumbs/minute and appears to be slightly limited by the fs,
peaking out at ~30000 packets/sec.
absolutely positively no man page. sorry.
- erik
