From: David Gordon Hogan <dhog@plan9.bell-labs.com>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] scanner support
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 22:58:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010726025901.6B0DA19A33@mail.cse.psu.edu> (raw)
> > 'From' memory, the SCSI-2 standard (somewhat stupidly) only specifies
> > how to get data from scanners, and says nothing about the format of
> > the data itself.
>
> That's not particularly stupid -- 9P specifies how to get data but
> not the format of the data itself.
The data in this case is a grid of pixel data. Now it is true that
the resolution can change, and the number of bits per pixel can change,
but all these things can be handled in a uniform way (c.f. the Plan 9
3rd edition graphics model).
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2001-07-26 2:58 David Gordon Hogan [this message]
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2001-07-23 19:58 Richard Miller
2001-07-23 13:56 anothy
2001-07-23 5:51 nigel
2001-07-23 2:50 Jonathan Sergent
2001-07-23 2:35 David Gordon Hogan
2001-07-23 15:06 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-07-22 19:45 anothy
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