2000-09-18 Henning Meier-Geinitz <hmg@gmx.de>

* README: Removed comment about xscanimage error message. Added
          comment about find-scanner (may find scanners not supported by
          SANE).
	* tools/README: Added comment about find-scanner and some lines
 	  about sane-desc.el and sane-config.
	* tools/find-scanner.c: Added comment about scanners not supported
 	  by SANE. Removed some warnings.
	* TODO LEVEL2: Removed xscanimage error comment from TODO and moved
 	  ideas for SANE 2.0 from TODO to LEVEL2.

README

@@ -189,9 +189,13 @@ should produce output similar to this:
   find-scanner: found "MUSTEK MFC-06000CZ 1.01" at device /dev/scanner
   find-scanner: found "MUSTEK MFC-06000CZ 1.01" at device /dev/sge
 
+Note that find-scanner will find any scanner that is connected to a
+SCSI bus.  It will even find scanners that are not supported at all
+by SANE.
+
 There may be several causes for the following messages from the
 frontends: "scanimage: no SANE devices found" or "xscanimage: no
-devices available." (together with a GTK error message).
+devices available.".
  
   * Your scanner is not recognized by any backend. It is not supported.
     You may ask the maintainer of your backend (see AUTHORS) or 

tools/README

@@ -1,11 +1,13 @@
-Wed Nov 12 20:47:04 1997
+Mon Sep 18 19:38:21 CEST 2000
 
 This directory contains various tools that may be useful:
 
  find-scanner:
-	Attempts to find a scanner attached to your system.
+	Attempts to find a SCSI scanner attached to your system.
 	Invoke with "find-scanner -h" to get command-line
-	syntax.
+	syntax. Note that find-scanner will find any scanner that
+        is connected to a SCSI bus.  It will even find scanners
+        that are not supported at all by SANE.
 
  xerox:
 	A simple script to make photocopies ("xeroxing").  In
@@ -17,3 +19,14 @@ This directory contains various tools that may be useful:
  mustek600iin-off:
 	Allows you to turn off a Mustek 600 II N scanner.
 	Use "make mustek600iin-off" to compile.
+
+Maybe usefull for SANE developers:
+
+ sane-desc.el:
+ 	Some handy elisp stuff to automagically generate descriptive
+	SANE webpages from backend .desc files with emacs. Look at the
+        top of the file for more details.
+
+ sane-config:
+	Show SANE version, linker flags etc. Might be usefull for 
+	frontend developers.

tools/find-scanner.c

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 /* find-scanner.c
 
-   Copyright (C) 1997-1999 Oliver Rauch and others.
+   Copyright (C) 1997-2000 Oliver Rauch and others.
 
    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
    modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
@@ -149,9 +149,9 @@ scanner_identify_scanner (unsigned char *buffer, int sfd, char *devicename)
       && devtype != IN_periph_devtype_cpu)
     return;				/* no, continue searching */
 
-  get_inquiry_vendor ((char *) buffer, vendor);
-  get_inquiry_product ((char *) buffer, product);
-  get_inquiry_version ((char *) buffer, version);
+  get_inquiry_vendor ((char *) buffer, (char *) vendor);
+  get_inquiry_product ((char *) buffer, (char *) product);
+  get_inquiry_version ((char *) buffer, (char *) version);
 
   pp = &vendor[7];
   vendor[8] = '\0';
@@ -409,6 +409,11 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
       dev_list = default_dev_list;
     }
 
+  printf (
+       "# Note that find-scanner will find any scanner that is connected\n"
+       "# to a SCSI bus.  It will even find scanners that are not supported\n"
+       "# at all by SANE.\n\n");
+
   if (getuid ())
     printf (
      "# You may want to run this program as super-user to find all devices.\n"