On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 21:44, Chris Wilkinson wrote: > Hi there, > > Nick Rout wrote: > > there are commandline scanning programs. > > > > not quitte as easy to use because of the lack off a preview window, but > > ultimately you can do > > > > scanimage --mode Color --resolution 300 --contrast 75 -l 0 -t 0 -x 120 > > -y 200 > > That will be a last resort! :-) Not because of CLI-phobia, but because > the resultant files will still need to be transfered to my AthlonXP > beastie from a laptop without a NIC...floppy disks will be about 20 > times too small for the scanned images I'd want to create! :-( In an emergency such as this one can network 2 'puters using the plip protocol which allows you to send IP packets over a LapLink, or FastLinks cable. ~$10 from DataParts. It plugs into the parallel ports. Alternatively every PC has a serial port. You can either do the uucp bit, or use minicom to transfer files with zmodem or what have you.
-- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell NB. This PC runs Linux. If you find a virus apparently from me, it has forged the e-mail headers on someone else's machine. Please do not notify me when this occurs. Thanks.
