"Scott Ehrlich" <se@panix.com> wrote in message
news:be9673$1l5$1@panix5.panix.com...

If Pacific does not provide an XP driver, there likely isn't one.

Do you expect someone would write an XP driver? For free, because people
expect drivers to freely supplied by the manufacturer?

Drivers are not like a piece of shareware with generic functionality that
anyone with a compiler and and some Windows knowledge can write. Drivers
require detailed and specific knowledge of the hardware, which is almost
never available or obtainable for new models, and esspecially for older
models. Its sometimes possible to hack into the existing EXE/DLL set and do
partial reverse engineering of the operations, but it very time consuming
and difficult.

Even if a device access library API is available (which is very rare), they
almost always require a driver that has to match the operating system
version.

A while back I toyed with doing drivers for some scsi based scanners, but
no-one who enquired was prepared to pay for the time and effort it would
take to do it, even on a shared basis. If I had 20 people prepared to pay
$100 each, up front, for a scanner driver, I'd consider it. Otherwise not !

And course, unless the driver is protected with access codes etc (not a good
marketting point), I'd likely sell one or two copies only and then it would
be available to all across the Internet.

regards,
Stewart DIBBS
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PiXCL 5 and geoPiXCL 5 Image Processing Languages
for Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP
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