Hi Byron, I hope you mean what company makes the cash register, I believe is an NCR. Later,
Alvaro Zúñiga ----- Original Message ----- From: "Byron Como" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2002 10:54 AM Subject: Re: [brlug-general] POS App > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > >
