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From: lennartb@lne.kth.se (Lennart Brjeson @ KTH, Stockholm)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: Bar code info
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Date: 26 Feb 91 17:21:00 GMT
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In article <10924@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>, bgribble@jarthur.claremont.edu (Bill Gribble) writes:
>Do any of you old hp41 hackers have any on-line info about how bar codes are 
>  coded?  I'd look in the library, but I am reeeaally lazy and I thought
>  I'd just let my fingers do the walking, as it were.
>
>Thanks in advance for any information.
>

The only thing I have is an age-old BASIC program which converts human-
readable HP41 source to an ASCII format which with some postprocessing
can be used to produce bar code. It can not make all kinds of bar code,
only programs. The PPC ROM contains quite a lot of info on bar codes.

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>**   Bill Gribble                     Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA   **
>**   bgribble@jarthur.claremont.edu   Never heard of it?  You're stupid.   **
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