Hello Mike, I was thinking about polling the information at the end of the night if possible. That would make the program easier to debug and I would not have to worry about event loops which is what Byron was probably talking about when he addressed the 10 line store debugging call at the beginning of happy hour. However, I do not think that the person is willing to spend to much money; therefore, I am going to propose running the entire functionality from the PC. I am not sure how that is going to turn out because they already have the have two registers and he is probably going to wonder why should he trash them but it boils down to do you want to do this? it will cost you.
Anyway, I still do not know and I am curious about how to obtain the information from the registers. I though it would be as simple as opening the register kind of like a socket or database connection, creating and looping through some structure to retrieve the values and reset the register. Who knows, I will add that to my to find out later list. If someone has done it can you show me a snippet of the code, preferably in C or Assembly? Thanks everyone, I will tell you about the out come which better be good. Later, Alvaro Zúñiga ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 6:27 PM Subject: Re: [brlug-general] POS App > Do you want to run the entire register functionality on the PC running linux > or do you want to poll the register information at the end of the night when > they're closing up and use the PC to gather and tally the information? > > > ----- 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 > >
