Messages in this thread |  | | From | Jared Mauch <> | Subject | Re: Genius B105 handscanner driver | Date | Sun, 8 Dec 1996 00:19:06 -0500 (EST) |
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Several things that everyone should note:
Most software licenses say you can't disassemble their code, but many companies have NDA's (Non-Disclosure Agreements) that they will make you sign before they give you technical information about their products.
I wouldn't want to see people in the (linux) community creating drivers/software where the procedures taken to create it are illegal.
APC is one such company, I know there are many more, and I applaud those companies, and think it is a great thing.
- Jared
Tuukka Toivonen graced my mailbox with this long sought knowledge: > > I have Genius B105 handheld 256 grayscale scanner. The problem is that i > don't have a driver for Linux, and i haven't found one despite searching. > > I have been considering the possibility that i would try to do it myself. > So if anyone has driver or is working for it, please reply so i won't waste > my time. > > Does anyone have experience that does Genius give datasheets out for their > devices easily? And from who I should ask for it, if they do? (Preferably > email address). > > The scanner has a DOS .SYS driver (non-TWAIN compatible), which > disassembled nicely, so I might try to reengineer it, if there aren't other > choices. > > Any suggestions? Help? Information? Thanks. > > | Tuukka Toivonen <tuukkat@stekt.oulu.fi> > | Homepage: http://stekt.oulu.fi/~tuukkat/ > | Try also finger -l tuukkat@stekt.oulu.fi > | Studying information engineering at the University of Oulu > +----------------------------------------------------------- > >
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