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<h1>Re: SANE release 0.74 available</h1>
<b>Rogier Wolff</b> (<a href="mailto:R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl"><i>R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl</i></a>)<br>
<i>Mon, 3 Aug 1998 08:54:10 +0200 (MEST)</i>
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David Mosberger-Tang wrote:<br>
<i>&gt; An important change as far as documentation is concerned is that now</i><br>
<i>&gt; every backend is being described by a short "description" file (see</i><br>
<i>&gt; backend/FOO.desc).  If you're maintaining a SANE backend, please make</i><br>
<i>&gt; sure that you keep that file up to date.  That way, we can ensure that</i><br>
<i>&gt; the web page (<a href="http://www.mostang.com/sane/sane-backends.html">http://www.mostang.com/sane/sane-backends.html</a>) always</i><br>
<i>&gt; contains the latest list of supported devices.</i><br>
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Ok. Did I do this right?<br>
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			Roger.<br>
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/home/wolff&gt; diff -u sane-0.74/backend/tamarack.desc.orig sane-0.74/backend/tamarack.desc<br>
--- sane-0.74/backend/tamarack.desc.orig        Mon Jul 13 20:48:59 1998<br>
+++ sane-0.74/backend/tamarack.desc     Mon Aug  3 08:50:55 1998<br>
@@ -1 +1,27 @@<br>
+; SANE Backend specification file<br>
+;<br>
+; It's basically emacs-lisp --- so ";" indicates comment to end of line.<br>
+; All syntactic elements are keyword tokens, followed by a string or<br>
+;  keyword argument, as specified.<br>
+;<br>
+; ":backend" *must* be specified.<br>
+; All other information is optional (but what good is the file without it?).<br>
+;<br>
 :backend "tamarack"               ; name of backend<br>
+:version "0.5"                 ; version of backend<br>
+:status :beta                  ; :alpha, :beta, :stable, :new<br>
+;<br>
+; Sorry, no manpage yet. Anybody want to write one?<br>
+;:manpage "sane-tamarack"              ; name of manpage (if it exists)<br>
+<br>
+:devicetype :scanner<br>
+<br>
+:mfg "Tamarack"                        ; name a manufacturer<br>
+:url "<a href="http://www.tamarack.net/">http://www.tamarack.net/</a>"<br>
+:model "Artiscan 6000C"                ; name models for above-specified mfg.<br>
+:comment "3 pass, 300 DPI; please report succes to <a href="mailto:R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl">R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl</a>"<br>
+:model "Artiscan 8000C"                ; name models for above-specified mfg.<br>
+:comment "3 pass, 400 DPI; please report succes to <a href="mailto:R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl">R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl</a>"<br>
+:model "Artiscan 12000C"               ; name models for above-specified mfg.<br>
+:comment "3 pass, 600 DPI"<br>
+<br>
/home/wolff&gt; <br>
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