From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.uzoreto.com!news.etla.org!nntp-feed.chiark.greenend.org.uk!ewrotcd!newsfeed.xs3.de!io.xs3.de!news.jacob-sparre.dk!franka.jacob-sparre.dk!pnx.dk!.POSTED.109.57.184.126.mobile.3.dk!not-for-mail From: Jacob Sparre Andersen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ann: Ada Bar Codes project launched Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2018 13:12:36 +0200 Organization: JSA Research & Innovation Message-ID: <87efhbndnf.fsf@jacob-sparre.dk> References: <46f5d4d1-a79c-4509-b201-0094ab88f60d@googlegroups.com> <87in6nnpgo.fsf@jacob-sparre.dk> <8288cedb-d157-463b-b996-231db3b4c438@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: franka.jacob-sparre.dk; posting-host="109.57.184.126.mobile.3.dk:109.57.184.126"; logging-data="8043"; mail-complaints-to="news@jacob-sparre.dk" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:gByZx5NfhOg7AwF9PBTJn95JI2w= Xref: reader02.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:53081 Date: 2018-06-13T13:12:36+02:00 List-Id: gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com writes: > Cool - so perhaps at some time even the bar codes will be generated > from the Ada program... The Warehouse Management System prints lots of bar codes every day, but I'm not sure if the actual conversion happens in the printer or in the Ada code (I suspect the printer is doing it). When you don't have a printer, which already can take a string and turn it into a bar code, it is certainly very useful to have Ada routines for doing it. Greetings, Jacob -- "Any, sufficiently advanced, technology is indistinguishable from magic."