I am looking for a utility that will scan a bar code and drop the upc number
into a field in an access table. Can anyone help. The current device that I
am using on a different system is a metrologic device that "wedges" before
the keyboard. I have looked at TWedge and the only way that I could figure
to use this was on a serial port.

Any help would be very appreciated!!

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Mike McEachran
mike (AT) hinckleydrug (DOT) com

I'm sure there are other POS devices for both lpt,USB and even
PC_Cards, but what's the problem with the serial port? My experience
is that all you need to do is install the device and scan the barcode,
the active field in a form would then receive whatever was read as if
you typed it in.

I'm not sure I'm understanding what your issue is, HTH.

regards,

John
jobrien AT acscience DOT com

"mike" <someone (AT) microsoft (DOT) com> wrote

Sorry, I figured out that the bar code scanner doesn't care what application
is running it just reads the upc and writes it to where ever the cursor is.
I thought I needed a special program.

Disregard the post.

Mike

Check out barcode fonts. You may have to pay for these.

I used to work for an outfit that made library automation software, and we
used a barcode font for reading and creating barcodes for library books.

There's quite a few different formats out there, but the most compatible
seems to be a "3 of 9" font. Look it up on Google.

Martin

"mike" <someone (AT) microsoft (DOT) com> wrote

Check out www.morovia.com. Excellent barcode source.