You could do three things. The first is to purchase a bar code scanner
that can append a Carriage Return to the end of every scan and get rid
of the ones that you are using now that cannot. Another solution would
be to put a carriage return character in all your bar codes if the bar
code symbology that you are using supports it.
You could print a second bar code encoded with a single carriage
return in it and then tell the user to read the carriage return bar
code after all other bar codes.
I'm very surprised that the scanner that you have now does not provide
that capability. I have never seen a scanner that does not allow you
to configure it to send a carriage return after each scan.
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On Wed, 08 Sep 1999 04:36:58 GMT, "Dave Holden"
Quote:
>Hello,
>I have an application that I am writing that runs on a portable barcode
>scanning terminal. The software runs on Telnet sessions over an RF link to
>a central server. The application is used for inventory control.
>My problem is that the barcode reader on the scanner cannot be set to append
>carriage returns to the end of its data strings. This is a major P.I.T.A.
>to the users since it forces them to hit the ENTER key on the terminal every
>time they scan a barcode. This problem would be trivial except that the
>client uses a couple of different barcode formats which differ in length, so
>a PICTURE clause on my GETS will not work.
>Has anyone else run into this problem before? How did you get around it?
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