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peri

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Sep 4, 2003, 10:44:19 AM9/4/03
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someone told me that I should be able to get a digital
camera to work from the USB on SCO 5.0.6 unix.

Has anyone accomplished this ? Or is this just
wishful thinking ?

Peri.


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Bob Bailin

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Sep 5, 2003, 4:55:57 PM9/5/03
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"peri" <briar...@kos.net> wrote in message news:3F574F...@kos.net...

> someone told me that I should be able to get a digital
> camera to work from the USB on SCO 5.0.6 unix.
>
> Has anyone accomplished this ? Or is this just
> wishful thinking ?

On 5.0.6 I'd say wishful thinking, but it should work on 5.0.7,
which has much better USB support for disk-like devices.

Bob


Bela Lubkin

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Sep 5, 2003, 6:11:00 PM9/5/03
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Bob Bailin wrote:

Even this may be a bit of wishful thinking. _Some_ USB cameras present
themselves as disks; some present themselves as scanners, or other
oddities of the USB spec; and some are entirely proprietary. I believe
there do exist USB cameras which will "just work" with OSR507; it may
even be a large percentage of all USB camera models. But not all. I
personally haven't tried this with any camera.

A camera that worked with 507 would have at least some chance of working
with 506 -- less chance than on 507, but better than 0.

>Bela<

Bill Campbell

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Sep 5, 2003, 6:38:24 PM9/5/03
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On Fri, Sep 05, 2003, Bela Lubkin wrote:
...

>Even this may be a bit of wishful thinking. _Some_ USB cameras present
>themselves as disks; some present themselves as scanners, or other
>oddities of the USB spec; and some are entirely proprietary. I believe
>there do exist USB cameras which will "just work" with OSR507; it may
>even be a large percentage of all USB camera models. But not all. I
>personally haven't tried this with any camera.

My solution to digital cameras has been to buy USB flash card readers
appropriate to the camera (e.g. SmartMedia), and I have a PMCMCIA adapter
for my laptop that works well under Linux. The readers are cheap
(generally under $20US retail), and work on every system I've tried them on
as a USB storage device. I have to say that I've only done this on various
flavours of Linux ranging from Caldera (now SCO) eDesktop 2.4 through SuSE
8.2, and Apple's OS X.

When I'm in the office, I usually suck pictures in on an Apple G4 because
I'm lazy and it's almost totally automatic. I use the PCMCIA SmartMedia
adapter on the laptop, mostly because it was the first thing I bought to do
this, and it's also the smallest.

Bill
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