On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 07:02:53PM -0500, steve wrote: > you know ive been looking for something that I could use to input upc > data to say kbarcode or something like that. Have been trying to > convince the company I work for to spring for handheld printers/scanner > solution to no avail. (retail environment) not to hijack this thread > but, any of you seen any open source solutions for say scanning a upc on > a product, inputting a price, then printing a tag? >
When I worked at Radio Shack in 1996 (in Canada), they were just switching their POS from a dos (on a Tandy 386) with terminals to a Unix (SCO) system with the same serial terminal. For barcode, they had a device that went between the keyboard and the terminal. Apparently, that way there was no software difference between manually typing in the barcode number and scanning it. We just had to ensure that the cursor was on the correct fiel; putting the UPC in the address field didn't help; putting it in the VISA number field was a royal pain until they put in valid number checking. As for printing it out, sounds like a simple script issue. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
