On 25 Sep 2003 at 8:40, Carl Cerecke wrote: > > So what on earth is a segmentation fault anyway? > Simply: A bug (caused by sloppy programming usually) where the program > tries to access a part of memory (a segment) that it has no permission > to access.
Ah. That. Thanks Carl. > What to do? > 1. Learn to program C. Track the bug down. Fix it. Share the fix. > 2. Give up and try something else. I moved from PC programming to microcontroller programming about 7 years ago, and then stopped programming in C altogether two years ago. A friend has suggested that I take up writing Linux code - but at the moment I feel sort of happy to stick to Perl ;-) So option 1 is not exactly what I had in mind. So I'm stuck with 2. When I get quite desperate, I might consider the following: 1. It is possible to scan from the command line, and a Perl script can automate that. 2. It is possible to use the GIMP through a Perl module. 3. Hopefully, it is possible to find or write a decent negative-to-positive plug-in fro the GIMP. So, in theory at least, not being able to get Iscan to work, should not render an excellent Epson scanner useless. Anybody got any pointers towards point 3 above? Chris? rgds and thanks for all the enthusiasm on this subject? Jaco
