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From: dkeisen@leland.Stanford.EDU (Dave Eisen)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: bar code formats???
Message-ID: <1991Jun29.020220.10559@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 29 Jun 91 02:02:20 GMT
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In article <PFILE.91Jun23203858@arson.Berkeley.EDU> pfile@arson.Berkeley.EDU (Rob Pfile) writes:
>Thanks. I tried searching the UC berkeley computers for "bar code" but didn't
>come up with that - however I got plenty of legalese!

Another reference is:

The Bar Code Book --- Reading, Printing, and Specification of Bar Code
Symbols by Roger C. Palmer. Copyright 1989 by Helmers Publishing, Inc.,
ISBN number: 0-1911261-02-8.


>
>While we're on the subject, does anyone out there know of any products or
>shareware/freeware programs to generate bar codes? I know there are some
>for the macintosh, but I'd like to stay within the unix environment.
>

It isn't freeware, but we use a modestly-priced source library by 
Infinity Computer Services. Printing barcodes of any format (UPC,
EAN, 3 of 9, ...) on a laser printer is as simple as writing
a printf statement.