>>There has to be a good reason for your asking this particular question. I'd like to know it so I can help you further.
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>Thanks Alex.
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>My clients and potential clients are dry cleaners. They all have computers at the front counter running my POS software (written all in VFP6.0 might I add).
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>They would scan the racks (rack locations are barcoded) and the ticket number to keep track of where on the rack the garments are kept for their customers. I need and want to add a barcode scanning system to my existing POS application to accomplish this.
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>They will not be walking around with the scanner. The scanner will remain in one location near the rack. The scanner will be attached to the computer via "long" cable.


Now, if I understand you correctly, you are trying to figure out how to connect the scanner to a PC. (via the long cable.)

The easiest way is via a wedge. This is a device that sits between the keyboard and the PC and the scanner attaches to it. The neat thing about this is: any data scanned goes in as if it was keyed in.

There is also a software wedge out there, which uses a comm port on the PC.

If you want more info, contact me at msavage@golden.net.

HTH,
Mike