What company? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alvaro Zúñiga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2002 11:09 PM Subject: [brlug-general] POS App
> Dear brlugies: > I am writing to you inquiring about a job I would like to take. This person > wants to have a normal POS application with report generation and all that > good stuff. I do not have a problem writing the applications; however, I am > not sure where to begin about processing the data from the register. I do > not even know how to hook it up. I would like to set them up with a cheap > Pentium running Linux in the background and an a ncurses based application. > > My question is where can I find some information about the register( I think > is an ncr)? Do I need to contact the company for an API? Do they need > licenses? etc ... I would like to know a little more about it before I take > the job. > > As far as programming goes, I do not suppose it would be any different than > interacting some proprietary library, is it? > > Thank you very much for listening and I cannot wait to hear from you! > > Alvaro Zúñiga > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John Hebert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, August 17, 2002 6:17 PM > Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Check out this page on NOLA.com > > > > Ed, you are gonna have fun with Cygwin: > > http://www.cygwin.com > > > > John Hebert > > > > --- Ed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Thats what I'M all about! Except, I want to see > > > Linux running ALL OVER our > > > corporate M$ network! > > > By the way, what is Cygwin? > > > > > > Ed > > > > > > > > > At 02:57 PM 8/17/2002 -0700, you wrote: > > > >And it smacks of desperation. I heard Liz Black > > > >denegrate M$ this morning about the 22 computers > > > for > > > >that school. The reason they are going with Linux > > > is > > > >because M$ is auditing them for license compliance. > > > >She was pretty pissed that M$ was picking on a > > > public > > > >school with hardly any budget. > > > > > > > >Sounds to me like M$ is rounding up the wagons for > > > a > > > >coming battle. I think the free|OSS community > > > should > > > >take the battle to the Win32 desktop and start > > > >encouraging people to run free software like Open > > > >Office and Mozilla. Cygwin Rules!!! :) > > > > > > > >John Hebert > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > General mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs > > http://www.hotjobs.com > > > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
