On 1 Jan 2001, Matthew Sackman wrote: > Dear all! > > I have been asked to start looking into providing an EPOS system for the shop > that I work at. I am hoping to be able to develop all the software myself > (using Perl and the GTK+ bindings). However, I have no idea about how well or > otherwise bar code scanners work under Linux. In the same boat :( > > Does anyone have any information as to which scanners are particularly > good/bad > and how they should be connected etc etc, and the same for cash-drawer > triggers? Don't know about cash drawers, but afaik most use a serial connection, and there's plenty of serial line sniffers about. Bar code scanners are pretty handy in the main - almost all connect through the keyboard port and send data as such; the barcode followed by a newline.
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