Sorry for the delay in replying. The Christmas festivities sort of caught up with me! (most enjoyable! :o) ).
I'm doing a crash course in Apache so I can sort out my web page without going online each time (yes I know I can always load the html file directly into Mozilla but there are things I need to use a proper server for :o) ). So don't go away..... On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 09:28:43 -0500 (EST) "m. allan noah" <an...@pfeiffer.edu> wrote: > hah hah. now you see why i said to use the business card instead of 4x6 :) unfortunately that was business card! :o( > > cat foo.log | perl spike3.pl > foo.out > > less foo.out > OK > 1. do you see any sort of packets repeating every few seconds? should be a > clear pattern, that is usually the system asking the scanner it's current > status (paper status, lid status, buttons status, lamp hot status, etc) > > 2. go down through those repeated packets and look for a change in the > contents of a packet from the scanner. that will be lamp getting hot, or > you doing something to the scanner. see how the system responds... > > you should be able to get a feel for what a 'command' looks like. ie: on a > fujitsu, you see something like: > > 31 byte command goes down to scanner, another block of varying length goes > either back to the system or down to the scanner, and a 13 byte status > command is read back from the scanner. > > so then you can build a list of 'this command writes a block, this one > reads, etc' > > allan Right, many thanks. Keith
