Hi, On 2006-05-22 13:04, Peter Coghlan wrote: > 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.
Thanks for your report! SANE builds on quite a lot of different platforms so most of the typical portability problems should be fixed meanwhile. > 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. Even without scanners you can test with the test backend (e.g. scanimage -d test --test or use the test patterns and check if the images look correct). > 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. Please send the patch to the list! Even if we don't include it now, it may be useful for someone. Bye, Henning
