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<h1>Re: abaton 300 GS</h1>
<b>David Huggins-Daines</b> (<a href="mailto:bn711@freenet.carleton.ca"><i>bn711@freenet.carleton.ca</i></a>)<br>
<i>Mon, 4 Jan 1999 18:09:18 -0500</i>
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On Mon, Jan 04, 1999 at 01:19:05PM -0500, Michelle Maynes wrote:<br>
<i>&gt; I thought I'd found the answer when I located your site on the web: here,</i><br>
<i>&gt; finally is the software we need to run our old Abaton 300 GS scanner from a</i><br>
<i>&gt; Power PC Mac with System 7! My excitement flagged as I spent some time</i><br>
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Nope, sorry.  The drivers on Everex's site do actually work with System 7,<br>
but I don't know if they work on PowerMacs.  If you're still using the<br>
original extension that came on the install disk, you should probably try<br>
the newer drivers - they're in the tech-support library on the Everex<br>
website (<a href="http://www.everex.com">http://www.everex.com</a>) somewhere, and shouldn't be too hard to<br>
find.<br>
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<i>&gt; trying to understand how to get this software, and now  I confess I'm lost</i><br>
<i>&gt; in cyberspace.  I'm not a software writer, don't know a thing about Linux</i><br>
<i>&gt; or LaTex. Am I out of luck here or can you tell me  if your SANE software</i><br>
<i>&gt; is what we need  to run our scanner, and if so, how do I download and</i><br>
<i>&gt; install it?</i><br>
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Unfortunately, no one has ported SANE to the MacOS, and given that the<br>
current MacOS is very unlike Unix, it's not likely to happen (I'm certainly<br>
not going to do it...)  Probably, a port to BeOS or MacOS X will be a lot<br>
easier.<br>
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So, at the moment, you're out of luck, unless you are willing to install<br>
LinuxPPC (<a href="http://www.linuxppc.org">http://www.linuxppc.org</a>) and do your scanning under it...  (you<br>
could always set up an old 486 as a scanning server, but it's probably<br>
cheaper just to buy a new scanner ;-)<br>
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