1; 2; SANE Backend specification file 3; 4; It's basically emacs-lisp --- so ";" indicates comment to end of line. 5; All syntactic elements are keyword tokens, followed by a string or 6; keyword argument, as specified. 7; 8; ":backend" *must* be specified. 9; All other information is optional (but what good is the file without it?). 10; 11 12:backend "v4l" ; name of backend 13:version "1.0-3 (unmaintained)" ; version of backend 14:manpage "sane-v4l" ; name of manpage (if it exists) 15:url "mailto:henning@meier-geinitz.de" ; backend's web page 16 17:devicetype :api ; start of a list of devices.... 18 ; other types: :stillcam, :vidcam, 19 ; :meta, :api 20 21 22:desc "Interface to Video For Linux API" ; describe a non-hardware device 23:comment "Supports video cameras and other devices accessed by the v4l kernel API, e.g. bttv devices. Quite a lot of known bugs." 24; :comment and :url specifiers are optional after :mfg, :model, :desc, 25; and at the top-level. 26