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From: fischer@netmbx.UUCP (Axel Fischer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Scanners and XENIX
Keywords: scanner
Message-ID: <3181@netmbx.UUCP>
Date: 29 Jul 89 15:27:21 GMT
References: <229@holmes.home.nwu.edu>
Reply-To: fischer@netmbx.UUCP (Axel Fischer)
Organization: netmbx Public Access Unix, Berlin, West Germany
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In article <229@holmes.home.nwu.edu> matt@holmes.home.nwu.edu (Matthew Larson) writes:
>2. If scanning software is not available under XENIX, I'm willing to try to
>run HP's software under VPix or Dos Merge.  HP tells me that their software
>runs under Microsoft Windows/286.  Is Windows well-behaved enough to run under
>either of these two packages?  Has anyone even tried HP's software running DOS
>under XENIX?

I don't know of any support for the HP Scanner ( I use it at work too) 
but I know for sure that you can't run any 286 programs under VP/ix.

If the scannersoftware runs under Windows/86 (I can't remember) you might be
lucky.

-Axel

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