Re: QCAM 0.2 now available

To: root <root@martian.rt66.com>
Subject: Re: QCAM 0.2 now available
From: scott@laird.com (Scott Laird)
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 1996 23:19:46 -0800
cc: linux-connectix@crynwr.com, nelson@crynwr.com
From nas.com!hardy.laird.com!hardy.laird.com!scott Thu Jan 4 02: 37:12 1996
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 03 Jan 1996 22:45:35 MST." <199601040545.WAA00121@martian.rt66.com>
Sender: scott@hardy.laird.com

> I can't even get it to work!  I get:
> 
> martian:~# qcam test
> QuickCam Locked.
> Cannot open QuickCam; exiting.

It doesn't care about lpd.  The locking mechanism creates a file in 
/tmp called LOCK.qcam.<port>.  Check to make sure that this file 
doesn't already exist and that you have space in your /tmp directory.  
I guess I'll have to add a lockfile reaping mechanism, <sigh>.

Also, running it as "qcam test" won't hurt anything, but it won't 
accomplish anything either -- qcam will ignore the "test" and still 
output everything to standard output.  Redirect qcam's output to a file 
and it should work fine.
 

Scott
-- 
Scott A. Laird   |  "But this goes to 18,446,744,073,709,551,615"
scott@laird.com  |                - Nigel on his new 64-bit computer

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Re: QCAM 0.2 now available

From: root <root@martian.rt66.com>