		  Kodak Digital Camera Protocol Interface (kdcpi)
			    Release: kdcpi-0.1.1
				28 July 1998
			       Brian A. Hirt
				
Ever since I bought my Kodak Digital camera, I've been forced to use the 
Windows drivers provided.  When ever I need to download my pictures I have 
to reboot my machine.  To make matters worse, the windows drivers are slow
and downloads take forever.  I did some searching around and couldn't find 
any FREE programs for downloading pictures.  Finally I decided I better
just do it myself.  

This release is limited in functionality but works well enough that
other people will probably find it useful.  Features include, downloading 
pictures, listing pictures, displaying camera status, deleting pictures
and taking pictures.  Additionally, communications work at 9600, 19200, 
38400, 57600 and 115200 bps.

If you have information about the DC220/DC260 line protocol, please
contact me.

This software if free software released under the GPL.  It has been designed 
in a modular way which should make including it in other software easy.  


			SAMPLE USAGE

kdcpi /dev/cua0 115200 status
kdcpi /dev/cua0 115200 dump 1 2 3
kdcpi /dev/cua0 19200 delete all
kdcpi /dev/cua0 19200 delete 1
kdcpi /dev/cua0 115200 dump all
kdcpi /dev/cua0 56400 snap
kdchi /dev/cua0 9600 list


			COMPATIBILITY

This software has been developed and tested with a P133 running Linux 
Redhat 5.1.  The Kodak Digital Science DC210, DC200, DC120 and DC50 have 
both been confirmed to work.  Unfortunately, the DC220 and DC260 speak
a different protocol which is not publically available and therefore 
do not work with kdcpi.

This software should run on any UNIX system with perl 5 and a decent
version of stty.  


			BUG REPORTING ADDRESS

Bugs or questions regarding this software may be reported to the 
author at: bhirt@berkhirt.com

kdcpi is available at http://www.berkhirt.com/HomerProductions/

			
			HELPING OUT

Feedback, suggestions, bug fixes, enhancements, etc to the software 
would be appreciated.  If you have information on the serial protocol
which you would like to provide, please do.
