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Date: Sun, 02 Feb 1997 13:25:42 -0800
From: Burton Sampley <bsampley@best.com>
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Attached is a message I sent to Logitech customer support and their
reply.  Since Logitech is refusing to support their products for any OS
other than Micro$oft, does a generic driver exist for "Twain compliant"
scanners?  Logitech claims this scanner is 100% Twain compliant, so I
thought maybe someone has a driver that might work.

Any suggestions?

Thanks.



Customer_Support@LOGITECH.COM wrote:
> 
> Customer Support
> 02/01/97 11:25 AM
> 
> I'm running FreeBSD 2.2 -Beta Unix (based on BSD 4.4 lite from U.C.
> Berkeley).  Is a Unix driver available for the scanner board scanman 256
> hand held scanner?  If so, which Unix is it for?  Is the source code
> avaiable for modification for my Operating System?  Is a release of
> FotoTouch available as well (and the sorce)?
> 
> Hello Burton,
> 
> Logitech does not support the use of its scanners in environments other
> than DOS, Windows v3.1x or Windows 95 (depending on the model scanner
> and the version of software being used).  There are currently no plans
> to support other platforms such as Unix, OS/2 or Windows NT.  The
> information necessary to create a driver for ScanMan 256 is
> proprietary, and therefore unavailable, as is source code.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Kevin
> Logitech Customer Support
> 
> Email: Customer_Support@logitech.com
> Web Site: http://www.logitech.com
> FTP Site: ftp://ftp.logitech.com/pub/TechSupport      BBS: (510)795-0408
> FaxBack (U.S. & Canada): (800)245-0000              Sales: (800)231-7717

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