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From: pfarrell@anselm.UUCP (Gladiator)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: source code for published programs
Summary: Bar codes
Message-ID: <251@anselm.UUCP>
Date: 28 Mar 89 15:55:07 GMT
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Organization: St. Anselms College, Manchester, NH
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I remember one magazine, I think RUN from commodore a while back, did
barcodes. You get a barcode reader, (not expensive) and all the programs
would be have barcodes next to them. I don't think it went over well
since I don't see it anymore, but I thought it was a good idea. OCR's are descent,
but not infalible. That is what the post office uses. The ones that can't
be read go to LSM operators who type a 2 digit code on em, and they go
back through. Or they get hand sorted. But those can really be picky at times.


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Patrick Farrell @ St. Anselm's college, Goffstown N.H. 1-603-472-2378
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