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

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

DESCRIPTION
       The  sane-ibm library implements	a SANE (Scanner	Access Now Easy) back-
       end that	provides access	to the IBM 2456	and the	Ricoh IS-410,  IS-420,
       and  IS-430  flatbed  scanners.	Support	 for  the IS-410 and IS-430 is
       untested. Please	contact	the maintainer or the sane-devel mailing  list
       if you own such a scanner.

       This  backend  is  alpha-quality.  It  may  have	bugs and some scanners
       haven't been tested at all. Be careful and pull the plug	if the scanner
       causes unusual noise.

DEVICE NAMES
       This backend expects device names of the	form:

	      special

       Where special is	the path-name for the special device that  corresponds
       to  a  SCSI scanner. The	program	sane-find-scanner(1) helps to find out
       the correct device. Under Linux,	such a device name could  be  /dev/sg0
       or /dev/sga, for	example.  See sane-scsi(5) for details.

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

FILES
       /usr/local/etc/sane.d/ibm.conf
	      The   backend   configuration  file  (see	 also  description  of
	      SANE_CONFIG_DIR below).

       /usr/local/lib/sane/libsane-ibm.a
	      The static library implementing this backend.

       /usr/local/lib/sane/libsane-ibm.so
	      The shared library implementing this backend (present on systems
	      that support dynamic loading).

ENVIRONMENT
       SANE_CONFIG_DIR
	      This environment variable	specifies the list of directories that
	      may contain the configuration file.  On *NIX systems, the	direc-
	      tories are separated by a	colon (`:'), under OS/2, they are sep-
	      arated by	a semi-colon (`;').  If	this variable is not set,  the
	      configuration  file  is  searched	 in  two  default directories:
	      first, the current working directory (".") and then in  /usr/lo-
	      cal/etc/sane.d.	If  the	value of the environment variable ends
	      with the directory separator character, then the default	direc-
	      tories  are searched after the explicitly	specified directories.
	      For example, setting SANE_CONFIG_DIR to "/tmp/config:" would re-
	      sult in directories tmp/config, ., and /usr/local/etc/sane.d be-
	      ing searched (in this order).

       SANE_DEBUG_IBM
	      If the library was compiled with debug support enabled, this en-
	      vironment	variable controls the debug level  for	this  backend.
	      Higher debug levels increase the verbosity of the	output.

SEE ALSO
       sane(7),	sane-find-scanner(1), sane-scsi(5),

AUTHOR
       mf <massifr@tiscalinet.it>
       Maintained by Henning Meier-Geinitz <henning@meier-geinitz.de>

				  13 Jul 2008			   sane-ibm(5)

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