<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>The barcode readers we bought and used several years back didn't care about the OS. You programmed the behavior using barcodes in the manual, plugged into the keyboard port and simply emulated keystrokes. Surprisingly simple. Would guess that modern models would do the same, just emulate a USB keyboard.</div><div><br></div><div>I believe the brand we used was WASP. And, we used them against a webapp by programming the reader to terminate the read and send the enter key - effectively submitting the form we built.<br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Sep 16, 2011, at 13:40, Peter Kukla <<a href="mailto:fruviad@yahoo.com">fruviad@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Why not just call Home Depot and ask them?<br><br>On a related topic...does anyone have any recommendations for cheap, Linux-friendly barcode scanners?<br><br>-peter<br><br><br><br><br>--- On <b>Fri, 9/16/11, Thomas W. cranston <i><<a href="mailto:cranston.thomas@gmail.com">cranston.thomas@gmail.com</a>></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><br>From: Thomas W. cranston <<a href="mailto:cranston.thomas@gmail.com">cranston.thomas@gmail.com</a>><br>Subject: [colug-432] Bar Codes<br>To: "Central OH Linux User Group - 432xx" <<a href="mailto:colug-432@colug.net">colug-432@colug.net</a>><br>Date: Friday, September 16, 2011, 2:18 PM<br><br><div class="plainMail">Hi<br><br>A little off subject<br><br>I am trying to identify where something comes from by the 12 digits <br>associated with a bar code.<br><br>Home Depot sells 1 x yellow pine, but not int the lengths I want. I want <br>to find out who mills the
lumber. Each piece has a bit of plastic with a <br>bar code stapled to it. In this case the numbers associated w/the bar <br>code are 0 99167 21015 5. There is no company name printed along with <br>the bar code.<br><br>Lumber yards where I live no longer carry what I need.<br><br>Is there anyway I can determine who the manufacturer is?<br><br>Tom<br>_______________________________________________<br>colug-432 mailing list<br><a ymailto="mailto:colug-432@colug.net" href="/mc/compose?to=colug-432@colug.net"><a href="mailto:colug-432@colug.net">colug-432@colug.net</a></a><br><a href="http://lists.colug.net/mailman/listinfo/colug-432" target="_blank"><a href="http://lists.colug.net/mailman/listinfo/colug-432">http://lists.colug.net/mailman/listinfo/colug-432</a></a><br></div></blockquote></td></tr></tbody></table></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>colug-432 mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:colug-432@colug.net">colug-432@colug.net</a></span><br><span><a href="http://lists.colug.net/mailman/listinfo/colug-432">http://lists.colug.net/mailman/listinfo/colug-432</a></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>