From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 29 18:12:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from alpha.pit.adelphia.net (alpha.pit.adelphia.net [24.48.44.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3003E1620E for ; Sat, 29 Jan 2000 18:12:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from evstiounin@adelphia.net) Received: from evstiouninadelphia (surf71-182.pit.adelphia.net [24.48.53.182]) by alpha.pit.adelphia.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with SMTP id VAA10004; Sat, 29 Jan 2000 21:12:32 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <006b01bf6ac7$e572b7c0$b6353018@evstiouninadelphia.net.pit.adelphia.net> From: "Mikhail Evstiounin" To: "Troy Settle" , Subject: Re: Bar Code Scanning Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 21:15:35 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Most of handheld scanners have a serial interface - it' pretty easy to connect a scanner to serial port and read value from port. I wrote a simple C program to read for one of them about 6 years ago. Scanner returns a numeric string - you have to convert it to a number. Scanner I worked with was able to read codes in 17 different standards, but it was transparent for me. -----Original Message----- From: Troy Settle To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Saturday, January 29, 2000 2:15 PM Subject: RE: Bar Code Scanning > >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. > >-Troy > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Ken >> Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2000 14:12 >> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> Subject: Bar Code Scanning >> >> >> Greets: >> >> Anybody know of any bar code scanning packages for FBSD? >> >> Thanks--kg >> >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> >> > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message