Damn! Could not Sleep I was having nightmares about being in the middle of the bar and runnning out of beer because of a bug in the program that did not project the weeks sales correctly!
finally found the answer. Yesssss! I am happy with that. http://monroecs.com/posstandards.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alvaro Zúñiga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 12:46 AM Subject: Re: [brlug-general] POS App > 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 > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
