sane-ibm(5)

1sane-ibm(5)              SANE Scanner Access Now Easy              sane-ibm(5)
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NAME

6       sane-ibm - SANE backend for IBM and Ricoh SCSI flatbed scanners
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DESCRIPTION

9       The  sane-ibm library implements a SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) back‐
10       end that provides access to the IBM 2456 and the Ricoh IS-410,  IS-420,
11       and  IS-430  flatbed  scanners.  Support  for  the IS-410 and IS-430 is
12       untested. Please contact the maintainer or the sane-devel mailing  list
13       if you own such a scanner.
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15       This  backend  is  alpha-quality.  It  may  have bugs and some scanners
16       haven't been tested at all. Be careful and pull the plug if the scanner
17       causes unusual noise.
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DEVICE NAMES

21       This backend expects device names of the form:
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25       Where  special is either the path-name for the special device that cor‐
26       responds to a SCSI scanner. The program sane-find-scanner helps to find
27       out  the  correct  device.  Under  Linux,  such  a device name could be
28       /dev/sg0 or /dev/sga, for example.  See sane-scsi(5) for details.
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CONFIGURATION

32       The contents of the ibm.conf file is a list of device names that corre‐
33       spond  to  SCSI  scanners.   Empty lines and lines starting with a hash
34       mark (#) are ignored.  See sane-scsi(5) on details of what  constitutes
35       a valid device name.
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FILES

39       /etc/sane.d/ibm.conf
40              The   backend   configuration  file  (see  also  description  of
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43       /usr/lib*/sane/libsane-ibm.a
44              The static library implementing this backend.
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46       /usr/lib*/sane/libsane-ibm.so
47              The shared library implementing this backend (present on systems
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ENVIRONMENT

51       SANE_CONFIG_DIR
52              This environment variable specifies the list of directories that
53              may contain the configuration file.  Under UNIX, the directories
54              are  separated  by a colon (`:'), under OS/2, they are separated
55              by a semi-colon (`;').  If this variable is not set, the config‐
56              uration  file is searched in two default directories: first, the
57              current working directory (".") and then in /etc/sane.d.  If the
58              value  of the environment variable ends with the directory sepa‐
59              rator character, then the default directories are searched after
60              the  explicitly  specified  directories.   For  example, setting
61              SANE_CONFIG_DIR to "/tmp/config:" would  result  in  directories
62              "tmp/config",  ".",  and  "/etc/sane.d"  being searched (in this
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65       SANE_DEBUG_IBM
66              If the library was compiled with  debug  support  enabled,  this
67              environment  variable controls the debug level for this backend.
68              Higher debug levels increase the verbosity of the output.
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AUTHOR

76       mf <massifr@tiscalinet.it>
77       Maintained by Henning Meier-Geinitz <henning@meier-geinitz.de>
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81sane-backends 1.0.18              15 Apr 2003                      sane-ibm(5)