I used a Foxpro DOS PLB called SilverFox, which gave me reliable, fast communication via the COMM ports. I beleive the company does not exist anymore, but would suggest searching for an equivalent or a licence for resale.
>Looking for advice on how to increase the slooooooow speed in which credit card swipe characters get posted to a text input field in FoxPro 2.6 for DOS (takes about 5 to 6 seconds to post the 103 character string to a text field) -- DOS typeamatic rate is set to 32 via the mode con: rate=32 delay=1 command -- card reader is attached to the AT keyboard.
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>Using FoxPro for Windows 2.6 that same card swipe post time takes about one second for the same 103 characters.
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>Posting the card swipe directly to a dos command window also takes one second or less.
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>So, I am stumpted looking for a means to speed up credit card swiping for a client's trusty ole FoxPro for DOS program now that we have added credit card processing to the DOS point of sale app that works wonderful otherwise...
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>Thanks for any thoughts you may have...
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