On a recent foray of mine into the US I picked up a cuecat barcode scanner at
a Radio Shack. I have since applied the modification to the cuecat so that
it should spit out plain text instead of something encoded.
I was in kde when I first tried this and time and time again was annoyed to
see the text cursor fly all over the place in kedit when I attempted to scan
anything.
Then for some reason or other I switched to a console running on one of my
other vterms and attempted a scan there which it performed flawlessly. I am
still unable to scan any barcodes in kde(2.2beta) however.
I opened a konsole window and tried something with the following results:
(using a barcode from the back of Mr. Bandel's latest book as a sample)
bash-2.05$ cat >/dev/null
^[[2~^[OD^[OA^[[2~^[[2~^[[2~^[[1~^[[2~^[[2~^[[2~^[[4~^[[2~^[OD^[[2~^[[2~^[[2~^[[2~^[[6~^[[2~^[OB^[[2~^[[4~^[[2~^[[4~
Doing the same in the console on another vterm resulted in the display of the
actual barcode.
David Aikema
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