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From: gordon@prls.UUCP (Gordon Vickers)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,alt.flame
Subject: Re: Bar Codes
Message-ID: <34995@prls.UUCP>
Date: 1 Jun 90 22:18:43 GMT
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Reply-To: gordon@prls.UUCP (Gordon Vickers)
Organization: Philips Research Labs, Sunnyvale, California
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>In article <5941@ur-cc.UUCP> lbilccss@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Lawrence Bilker) writes:
>Does anyone know where to find programs for an IBM PC or better yet routines
>in BASIC or higher level language to generate bar codes.  Specifically
>code 39 and 3 of 9 bar codes.  Please e-mail replies to the address below.
>
>	Thanks
>	    Larry
>

     A few months ago, I was also looking at PC software that would print
  bar codes to at least one well known brand of printer.  I found lots of
  companies just by looking at an issue of PC WORLD or some such magazine.
  I've already passed my recommendations (and all the information I collected)
  back to the requesting department and I don't remember which package I
  recommended.  Contact several companies, read their literature CAREFULLY
  (many claim you can import data from any of a variety of databases, but
   common sence should tell you this is going to be a real pain). The only
   thing I remember about the product I recommended was it was transparent.
   You send what ever you want to the printer and any thing delimited by
   a pair of AT signs (@) will be intercepted and translated into some
   preselected bar code symbology.

Gordon Vickers 408/991-5370, at Signetics  (Sunnyvale, California, USA )
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