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From: gbuchanan@on.sympatico.ca (Gardner Buchanan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: EPSON PhotoPC-500 with FreeBSD?
Date: 11 May 1997 15:45:13 GMT
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In article <EA0GvA.FG@sphynx.fdn.fr>,
	causse@sphynx.fdn.fr (Philippe Causse) writes:
> 
> I'm about to purchase a digital camera (EPSON PhotoPC-500) but I wonder
> if someone has written a userland application to download the snapshots
> from the camera via the serial port.
[snip]
> If not, I'm willing to write it myself but I don't know the protocol used
> to transfer images from the camera to the host (FreeBSD box actually).
> What I need is either a source code, either some documentation or some
> pointers to it.
> 

If you went with a Kodak DC-20, there is enough information in
Oliver Hartmann's DC-20 secrets page to get you going, including
a link to Linux user-land code.

  http://home.t-online.de/home/Oliver.Hartmann/dc20secr.htm

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Gardner Buchanan    <gbuchanan@sympatico.ca>
Ottawa, ON