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From: moore@cs.utk.edu (Keith Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.scsi,comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: HP scanner
Date: 11 May 1994 06:01:38 GMT
Organization: Univ. of Tenn. Computer Science, Knoxville
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In article <CpJMss.K3L@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>, richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) writes:
> We have an HP ScanJet IIcx scanner, which was bought for use with
> a Macintosh.  I'd like to use it under FreeBSD.

For what it's worth, we tried to get the HP manual that describes this
scanner's SCSI command set -- for the purpose of writing our own
device driver -- and they would not sell it to us.

But if someone else has gotten around this, I'd like to know about it.
--
Keith Moore / U.Tenn CS Dept / 107 Ayres Hall / Knoxville TN  37996-1301
Internet: moore@cs.utk.edu      BITNET: moore@utkvx
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