On Wednesday 20 August 2003 11:45 am, Deb Baddorf wrote: > Hi all -- > I have a barcode reader with my tape robot. I've tested the robot > and got it playing nicely with amanda; nut I haven't yet told her that > it can do barcodes. > In what fashion does amanda make use of the bar codes, assuming > I tell her that I have a reader (havereader = 1)? > > Does amanda use them while finding tapes, or just report them to me > for my visual usage?
AFAIK, the amtape will use the file changer-barcodes to find a tape. I am not 100% sure of that because I wrote my own changer. > Does the barcode label need to match the amlabel string? No. > (it is kind of long for barcoding....) > Or is the barcode just *associated* with the amlabel > (in the mentioned barcode database)? > > i.e. is UX0001 associated with MyTapeStringDaily-034 > by the barcode database > or does it have to actually *say* MyTapeStringDaily-034 > on the barcode? When amlabel writes a label it add it and the barcode to the file changer-barcodes. If there is no barcode available the then barcode is a recorded as -1. -- Stephen Carville ------------------------------------------------------------------ Right wing socialists hate privacy as much as the left wing socialists hate guns.
