This is Perl module sane. INSTALLATION sane installation is straightforward. If your CPAN shell is set up, you should just be able to do % cpanm sane Download it, unpack it, then build it as per the usual: % perl Makefile.PL % make && make test Then install it: % make install DOCUMENTATION sane documentation is available as in POD. So you can do: % perldoc sane to read the documentation online with your favorite pager. punytan