On 06 Aug 96 andreas birgerson said to Langley Mckelvy...
 ab> the scanners i have seen are tapped into the keyboard so entered
 ab> characters from the keyboard and from the scanner look alike
Sounds like a good idea.  That way, if you get a barcode that will not scan,
you can just type in the code and the program will not know the difference.
With a serial port reader, you would probably need extra code to cover
scan failures.
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