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<h1>Re: SANE Net backend suggestion...</h1>
<b>Nick Lamb</b> (<a href="mailto:njl98r@ecs.soton.ac.uk"><i>njl98r@ecs.soton.ac.uk</i></a>)<br>
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On Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 06:17:25PM -0800, Brian Macy wrote:<br>
<i>&gt; A bit of a thought that I've been interested in for quite some time...</i><br>
<i>&gt; what do you all think of having the net backend writing the data during</i><br>
<i>&gt; a scan to a file. At the same time a thread (or whatever is appropriate)</i><br>
<i>&gt; writes the file out the data socket. That way if you have a slow network</i><br>
<i>&gt; connection (which it can easily be slower than a SCSI scanner) your</i><br>
<i>&gt; scanner doesn't play the two steps forward, one step back game.</i><br>
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Is this really a problem for a lot of readers? It must not be a feature<br>
of the net midend in any case, if you'd like to write a midend which<br>
buffers data to disk I'm sure such readers would be grateful. There<br>
may even be non-networked applications which would benefit from such<br>
an optional buffer.<br>
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For me at least (nice HP scanners on decent PCI SCSI card, 100Mbit net)<br>
it was very much faster to send data over the network than down the<br>
already clogged up SCSI bus to the disk. I am too busy to even try<br>
the brand new A3 scanner which arrived last week (not an HP this time)<br>
so I must get back to work now.<br>
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Nick.<br>
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