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.
