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<h1>Re: small change to network protocol</h1>
<a href="mailto:becka@sunserver1.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de"><i>becka@sunserver1.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de</i></a><br>
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<i>&gt; I made a small change to the network protocol: the reply to the START</i><br>
<i>&gt; command now includes a member that specifies the byte order of the</i><br>
<i>&gt; image data (big or little-endian). This will be important once there</i><br>
<i>&gt; is a backend that supports depths greater than 8 bits/channel.</i><br>
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<i>&gt; As usual, comments welcome.</i><br>
I am not sure, if you got my last comment about transferring proprietary<br>
file formats. There are some sources (digital cameras in particular) that<br>
spit out fully featured JPGs even with usefuls comments.<br>
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It would be no good idea quality-wise and due to the loss of extra <br>
information to decompress-&gt;transfer-&gt;compress such files.<br>
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I would suggest adding an extension to the start command which says<br>
"I am transferring in proprietary format $1. Suggested file-extension is $2."<br>
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This would allow for arbitrary files to be transferred through SANE, though<br>
the backend would have to disable quite a lot of its features which rely on <br>
being able to interpret the data and simply suggest to save the file.<br>
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CU,Andy<br>
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