Thanx for a nifty port. I've been happlily using xsane in out school network for a couple of years. We have 5 old linux boxes scattered around the place as scanner servers and the WinXP/Win98-clients use xsane to connect.
However there are two issues. The minor one: Is there a technical reason why the program has to be installed to c:\sane? Can't the program search for it's files using perhaps a XSANE variable or in current directory? I like to have the program installed on the server so I can upgrade it for every user and not having to walk around 300+ PC's. This works in 0.90 on Win98 but not on WinXP for some reason. In 0.96 it works on neither. I found out you only have to put some files in c:\sane so I can distribute those every time, so this issue is not a biggie. The major one: In xsane-0.83 and 0.90 I could run 'xsane.exe ip-of-scan-server:device'. In 0.96 this doesn't work; I have to add all my servers in net.conf, wait for xsane to "scan for devices" and choose the right one from five nearly identical entries. Maybe I can pick the right one but definitely not my users. Can we please have the scan-server argument back? FYI, version 0.90 was much faster than 0.96. I tried them on a 400MHz and 0.96 was really sluggish, perhaps due to newer gtk versions. Regards, Peder Hedlund
