Hey Byron, The company is a local bar that wants to have tight control of their inventory because they loose to much booze I suppose. I have never done anything like this but I do not assume that it can be any more difficult than referencing some objects from the register. Once I get those I can plug them to a working model I already have. I will go get the exact model of the machine and call the company, which I think is NCR, to find out what literature they have( thanks Mat ).
Later, Alvaro Zúñiga Education is what you have left after you have forgotten everything you learned. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Byron Como" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2002 8:38 PM Subject: Re: [brlug-general] POS App > Actually I ment what local company is the work for? Some local vendors are > working with ICL, the Israeli based company as well as products from Casio > and NCR. And there are even more brands available. It depends on who the > local vendor is. Of course you will need an actual cash register at your > desktop to be able to test with. Are you taking on the project as a > contractor supplying a finished package or as an employee punching a time > clock? If you can get an actual machine from the vendor they should be able > to supply you with programming manuals. I personally would not take the > project without a working cash register and manuals from the manufacturer. > That type of application requires an ap be rigorously tested before its 1.0 > release. Store owners have little patience for screw ups. It is not a pretty > sight to make a service call in a 10 lane grocery store at 5:00 on a Friday > afternoon to troubleshoot buggy software. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Alvaro Zúñiga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, August 18, 2002 6:45 PM > Subject: Re: [brlug-general] POS App > > > > 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. 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