>>>I don't think there are that many different codes out there to program the different barcode readers, I have found that many use the same >barcodes for this programming. We used this feature ourself a few years ago, and we had a paper which we sent to our customer. Read barcode >1, then 2 and then 3. That's all that was required. Most likely you will have to program the barcode readers anyway, unless you will only read >numeric data.
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>>Long life for Clipper!!!
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>>I suppose I will have to give up.
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>>In the poor example of VFP use @ get... Oh, no...
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>>If what you say is true I will make many copies of my reader's manual. If that doesn't work I will really blame you! I'll tell my clients: "Go and ask for Tore!"
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>>You see? I must thank you for waste your time helping me.
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>> Héctor
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>First of all, I just got a private email from a friend. He tells me that chrsaw() is still alive, so to say.
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>Secondly, what we used to send to our customer, was ONE sheet of paper with just a few lines of text, and three barcodes marked 1, 2 and 3. Not all our customers were rocket scientists, but they all understood what to do.

Just to clarify what Tore is saying, what he's referring on the sheet of paper are the barcodes for programming the reader. Many barcode scanners can be programmed by scanning specific barcodes (and as Tamar mentioned, it's likely you'll be able to find the manual online). Once you obtain that information, all you have to do is to make a printout with the necessary barcodes and deliver that to your customer.