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<p class=MsoNormal>There was one area that the standard did not try to handle
at first, and that was capability negotiation.&nbsp; True, TWAIN came with a
selection of programmatic capabilities, so that it was possible to negotiate
some kinds of values, but the selection was small.&nbsp; Instead drivers came
with internally generated dialogs.&nbsp; The application invoked these dialogs
and left all the problems of negotiation to the driver.&nbsp; The benefit was
that an appl