From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 29 12:43:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx20.rmci.net (halcyon.rmci.net [205.162.184.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C0F1F150F2 for ; Sat, 29 Jan 2000 12:43:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from webweaver@rmci.net) Received: (qmail 16609 invoked from network); 29 Jan 2000 20:43:18 -0000 Received: from usr-boi-301.rmci.net (HELO chilly-willy) (206.159.113.177) by halcyon.rmci.net with SMTP; 29 Jan 2000 20:43:18 -0000 Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.20000129134504.00b6ecb0@mail.rmci.net> X-Sender: webweaver@mail.rmci.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 13:45:47 -0700 To: Kent Stewart , Troy Settle From: Ken Subject: Re: Bar Code Scanning Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <38934561.B5237AD4@3-cities.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 11:54 AM 1/29/2000 -0800, Kent Stewart wrote: >Troy Settle wrote: > > > > Get a scanner that plugs inline with the keyboard. The scanner then sends > > text to the keyboard buffer. FreeBSD won't give a hoot that it's > scanned or > > typed. > >This is definitely the easy way. However, these bar code scanners are >mostly toy versions of the real thing. My definition of a real thing >is a scanner that can read each bar code on the blades of a running >fan. That works out to be about 90 good scans a second. The toys are >the simple wands, which can force re-reads because of more frequent >bad reads. They all have problems with attitude of the scanner to the >bar code because of reflections. > >The ones I have used and programmed around were usually associated >with the serial port, use lasers, have a button or trigger to start >the scan, and read without touching the bar code like most of the A bit more detail; what I'd like to be able to do is setup a scanner w/FBSD that udates inventory in a MySQL database. I'm not a C/C+ coder, but am familiar with Perl. Thanks Bunches-- Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message