>>>>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. :-(

Thanks. I looked it over and boy does it look like it gets real deep real fast... (s)

Thanks
Tom