Re: [M100] [m100] Odd Topic - barcode storage

2024-06-21 Thread Mike Stein
Microsoft Office (Word), Libre etc. can use barcode fonts; download and install the font (e.g. Code39) if it's not already on your computer and use it like any other font to print (although you may have to delimit your text with asterisks). As noted elsewhere, I'm pretty sure there were barcode r

Re: [M100] [m100] Odd Topic - barcode storage

2024-06-21 Thread RETRO Innovations
I think UPC would not be best for this.  The wand will do 3of9, so I'd try that.  From the looks of the code and the requirements, you should be able to put roughly the same amount of data on a page using 3of9 as you can with text.  If you can encode the line feeds in the stream as a char and n

Re: [M100] [m100] Odd Topic - barcode storage

2024-06-21 Thread Greg Swallow
It might've been Portable 100 that did publish a program you could type in and scan barcodes that followed the source listing. I believe the scanning program actually opened a .DO file and saved the listing to ASCII. You then entered BASIC, LOAD/MERGE the .DO file, then SAVE it to .BA. I don't r

Re: [M100] [m100] Odd Topic - barcode storage

2024-06-21 Thread Scott McDonnell
Without some sort of supporting software to compress the data, you would need 7 bits of UPC data per character to simply scan a line directly into the basic prompt. A one page listing in a magazine would be several pages long of barcodes. The barcode on products is just a short number and it is

[M100] [m100] Odd Topic - barcode storage

2024-06-21 Thread J S
Hey everyone, I had a question. And it might already be solved but I don't see an answer on how to do it. I'm a recent owner of both an 100 and a 200 model machines. I also have a barcode pen. I've seen lots of information about using it for data entry and business type applications but I have