From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Sep 25 14:04:04 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA13388 for isp-outgoing; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 14:04:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from roguetrader.com (brandon@cold.org [206.81.134.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA13358 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 14:03:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (brandon@localhost) by roguetrader.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA11922 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 1997 15:04:55 -0600 (MDT) Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 15:04:55 -0600 (MDT) From: Brandon Gillespie To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Visa POS Port daemon Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk A few months back I mentioned the POSd I had written. It is now available, and anybody interested can get and use it, following the guidelines set out in the COPYRIGHT file. The Visa POS Port is essentially like a Credit Card swipe machine, except for it is connected through the Serial port on a computer. The Visa POS Port Daemon (POSd) is a Unix Server Daemon which handles communication to and from the serial port, and routes it to one or more network connections. The POSd is what the Visa Documentation refers to as an In-Store Processor (ISP), where the external database software is the Electronic Cash Register (ECR). The POSd is known to run in: FreeBSD 2.1.7 or newer Digital Unix 4.0 For more information, look at the web site: http://www.sunrem.com/posd/ All feedback can be sent to: brandon@sunrem.com There is also a mailing list: posd@sunrem.com Which can be subscribed to, using the standard majordomo subscription means. -Brandon Gillespie