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From: vic@zen.UUCP (Victor Gavin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Scanjet Scanner on HP-UX?
Message-ID: <1464@zen.UUCP>
Date: 16 Dec 88 10:08:42 GMT
References: <12173@cup.portal.com> <9620003@hprmokg.HP.COM>
Reply-To: vic@zen.UUCP (Victor Gavin)
Organization: Zengrange Limited, Leeds, England
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In article <9620003@hprmokg.HP.COM> alh@hprmokg.HP.COM (Al Harrington) writes:
>We scan on a PC then put it on our HP-UX machines.  From there we run a 
>program called 'tif2x' which converts it to an X Windows backdrop.  Is
>that what you are looking for??

In my case, no. I would like to write programs under HP-UX to control the
ScanJet to allow things like OCR and desk top publishing. Using a PC to control
the scanner and then load the image onto our computer takes too long.

\begin{another-gripe}
It's similar to HP's LaserRom service where they put all the HP-UX
documentation onto a laser disk, but only supply the laser reader for PC's.

Why couldn't they have made a stand-alone device which sat on HP-IB and looked
like an ordinary disk-drive. Then everyone connected to a machine on a 
network that had this `disk' device could mount it and access all of the
information.

Come on now, single user documentation system for a multi-user computer.
Get Real HP.
\end{another-gripe}

> -Al Harrington

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