Good leads, Evan...

I wrote a FoxPro 2.x DOS application years ago that did this. Worked with a receipt printer, a pole display, and a bar code reader...all were really easy to work with. I think the cash drawer just wanted a CHR(12) sent via a serial cable and >ka-ching<.

All very simple. Rix has nothing to worry about.


>Here are some leads:
>- do a search on "point sale" with no quotes for a last few years
>- same for "bar code" (follow the hyperlink too)
>- same for "receipt printer". Depending on the printer you would either define a special paper size or print to it on the old pre-VisualFoxpro pay (no report writer)
>- a cash drawer would probably be controlled through a serial port. You can use MSCOMM for this
>Others may have more specific ideas.
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>>We have an order entry/inventory control program that is written in VFP for a Novell Network. Now we would like to include a point-of-sale computer on the network that includes a cash drawer, bar code reader, and receipt printer.
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>>Does anyone have any information as to how to do this? I've looked through 3 years of back issues of FoxPro Advisor but can't find a single article about how this can be accomplished.