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authorJörg Frings-Fürst <debian@jff-webhosting.net>2021-05-18 07:43:35 +0200
committerJörg Frings-Fürst <debian@jff-webhosting.net>2021-05-18 07:43:35 +0200
commit9f8889f928ce86ba4a78659d378c6ba29bc9f735 (patch)
treec9567cb0d015b68ce3da8d03472b6443f1cb1ca9 /doc/sane-find-scanner.man
parent446e9454b8cbe5b689149415d11d36e88442ca88 (diff)
parent154785ab2d5df7ddc8c2cf813b773c340e5e2aea (diff)
Merge branch 'release/debian/1.0.32-1'debian/1.0.32-1
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@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ sane\-find\-scanner \- find SCSI and USB scanners and their device files
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B sane\-find\-scanner
-is a command-line tool to find SCSI and USB scanners and determine their Unix
+is a command-line tool to find SCSI and USB scanners and determine their UNIX
device files. Its primary aim is to make sure that scanners can be detected by
SANE backends.
.PP
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ won't find most
parallel port scanners, or scanners connected to proprietary ports. Some
.B parallel port
scanners may be detected by
-.B sane\-find\-scanner -p.
+.I sane\-find\-scanner -p.
At the time of writing this will only detect Mustek parallel port scanners.
.SH OPTIONS
@@ -90,22 +90,23 @@ filename is a file that contains USB descriptors in the format of
/proc/bus/usb/devices as used by Linux.
.B sane\-find\-scanner
tries to identify the chipset(s) of all USB scanners found in such a file. This
-option is useful for developers when the output of "cat /proc/bus/usb/devices"
+option is useful for developers when the output of
+.I "cat /proc/bus/usb/devices"
is available but the scanner itself isn't.
.TP 8
.B devname
Test device file "devname". No other devices are checked if devname is given.
.SH EXAMPLE
-.B sane\-find\-scanner \-v
+.I sane\-find\-scanner \-v
.br
Check all SCSI and USB devices for available scanners and print a line for
every device file.
.PP
-.B sane\-find\-scanner /dev/scanner
+.I sane\-find\-scanner /dev/scanner
.br
Look for a (SCSI) scanner only at /dev/scanner and print the result.
.PP
-.B sane\-find\-scanner \-p
+.I sane\-find\-scanner \-p
.br
Probe for parallel port scanners.
.SH "SEE ALSO"