Barcode scanners are normally pretty dumb. I've never used the QuickLink, but I would be surprised if it is not like the others. Basically you configure them by actually scanning commands into them from the config. manual. Once configured, they typically scan a bar code, make a beep, and send out a small ascii stream. cat /dev/?? > /tmp/file Should be a truly simple way to capture the output. BTW: Historically in UNIX there was an option to cat to run unbuffered. This allowed commands like the above to work even if there were no newlines. I don't see that in the man page for SuSE, so you might have to write a simple c program or something instead of using cat. Greg
Hi,
I've just been given a QuickLink scanner (made by: http://www.wizcomtech.com) to mess about with. It can scan text and barcodes and send it to a PC and comes with a lead to plug it into a serial port. The apps for it are Windows only and I would like to be able to use it to read barcodes into a web page. How would I go about setting up Linux to allow me to do this, and has anyone had any experience with this type of scanner before?
Thanks,
Geraint Jones.
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