From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 15 18:20:02 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B63516A4BF for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 18:20:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from amrita.pacific.net.sg (amrita.pacific.net.sg [203.120.90.219]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A580643FA3 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 18:19:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oceanare@pacific.net.sg) Received: (qmail 4834 invoked from network); 16 Oct 2003 01:19:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO maxwell2.pacific.net.sg) (203.120.90.192) by amrita with SMTP; 16 Oct 2003 01:19:56 -0000 Received: from pacific.net.sg ([210.24.202.10]) by maxwell2.pacific.net.sg with ESMTP id <20031016011956.KMCM1185.maxwell2.pacific.net.sg@pacific.net.sg>; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 09:19:56 +0800 Message-ID: <3F8DF23B.4050806@pacific.net.sg> Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 09:19:55 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky Organization: oceanare pte ltd User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030827 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org References: <20031015212442.GA46578@stone.locallink.net> <20031015143929.G50164@skutsje.san.webweaving.org> <1066263659.72566.4.camel@boxster.onthenet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <1066263659.72566.4.camel@boxster.onthenet.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: CC swiper / Cash machine X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 01:20:02 -0000 Hi, take a look at the web-site of Schlumberger. They do machines like this. All the documentation needed should be there. There is even a standard behind. Most machines follow this standard. Only the fields vary. Yes, most machines are connected via RS232. The protocol is pretty easy to do. Erich Q wrote: > Interesting, documentation availability must depend on who you talk to, > or what country you live in. I too have been trying to source the > programming doco for an eftpos pinpad recently (an Ingenico device), and > it has so far been mostly fruitless. > > Do you have any documentation for a similar device that you can forward > to me that might give me an idea of what such a protocol would normally > look like. > > Seeya...Q > > On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 07:40, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: > > >>On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Keith Pitcher wrote: >> >> >>>Anyone ever used FreeBSD to talk to a CC swipe machine and / or a cash >>>machine? >> >>A fair number of them (in fact most) are serial ports (though you may need >>RS232/432 volt/current conversion) devices which are very easy to talk to. >>Just think 'modem'. Kind off. Documentation is generally excelent. >> >>Dw. >>_______________________________________________ >>freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list >>http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers >>To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >