On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 16:53, Brent Hasty wrote: > well first of all my scanners plural, have sheet feeders, unfortunatly due to > a kernel bug between smp and usb, I cannot run the scanners directly on my > highpowered dual processor amd machine, instead I have them connected to a > lowly amd k6-2 400 print server, who has the unique advantage of having the > only usb chipset (that theroetically does not exist) that does not loos its > connection to an hp office jet g85 when it goes into power save mode. > > What I would like to do is pass the scanner output from saned running on the > printer spooler to the machine with the HP to more rapidly convert the raw > color output into the file format of my choice. As well as the smp machine is > the terminal server for several other users who need acess in our small hub > like office, an arms reach from everything, wheeled chairs and hardwood > floors.
Then wouldn't it theoretically be possible to create a "fake" /dev/ - a symlink to the device on the target system - or, conversely, point the output of the sane on the scanner server to a pseudo printer on one of the workstations (printer as a file - like ps, gv or pdf)...? ...or am I too tired and over caffeinated to make sense? -- Mon Dec 9 17:00:01 EST 2002 5:00pm up 20:45, 4 users, load average: 0.01, 0.07, 0.45 .o0 linux user:267497 0o. -------------------------------- | __ __ | kühn media australia | / \ /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | .\__/ || | | | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kühn | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |'. `\ | | | icq: 5483808 | ;"""/ / | | | | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | ' `-`' " " | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU -------------------------------- Coralament*Best Grötens*Liebe Grüße*Best Regards*Elkorajn Salutojn not enough memory, go get system upgrade
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