well, after letting this sit for a few weeks to see if i could think of a better way, i stumbled across the fact that the sane backend for bell and howell scanners already supports 3 additional frame types. they are used to send variants of G4 fax, and the text that comes from a hardware bar/patchcode reader. this code has been a part of sane for years, and it has not hurt anyone.
therefor, i am moving ahead with adding other frame-type support to the mainline fujitsu backend. i will put the additional frametype defines in sane.h, unless there are valid objections. i may also move the ones that are in bh, too, so that the list remains unique. allan -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"
