On Sunday 08 December 2002 10:02 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 16:53, Brent Hasty wrote: > > well first of all my scanners plural, have sheet feeders, unfortunatly > > due to a kernel bug between smp and usb, I cannot run the scanners > > directly on my highpowered dual processor amd machine, instead I have > > them connected to a lowly amd k6-2 400 print server, who has the unique > > advantage of having the only usb chipset (that theroetically does not > > exist) that does not loos its connection to an hp office jet g85 when it > > goes into power save mode. > > > > What I would like to do is pass the scanner output from saned running on > > the printer spooler to the machine with the HP to more rapidly convert > > the raw color output into the file format of my choice. As well as the > > smp machine is the terminal server for several other users who need acess > > in our small hub like office, an arms reach from everything, wheeled > > chairs and hardwood floors. > > Then wouldn't it theoretically be possible to create a "fake" /dev/ - a > symlink to the device on the target system - or, conversely, point the > output of the sane on the scanner server to a pseudo printer on one of > the workstations (printer as a file - like ps, gv or pdf)...? > > ...or am I too tired and over caffeinated to make sense? This sounds neat, but I would need help doing such a thing. How would one create the nessicary sym links that will be functional? -- 9:43am up 4 days, 10:12, 7 users, load average: 0.21, 0.45, 0.50
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