>>>Does anyone have any war stories they would like to share about
>>>interfacing a Bar Code Scanner to VFP 5?
>>However, OLE for POS does support scanners, along with cash
>>drawers, receipt printers, change machines, and several other neat
>>things. The Application Programmer's Guide is on under Industry
>>Solutions:Retail & Distribution:For Developers Only.
>All I see is a Cryptogrphy article where you mentioned. If you have a
>URL then PLEASE let me know.

http://www.microsoft.com/industry/retail_dist/retail_distdev.htm#opos

( I can't believe I forgot to say it was on the Microsoft site....)

One major problem with scanning that we've come across is the non-universality of UPCs. I'm working with a specialty store, and a fairly large number of products use something besides the UPC. :-(