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note that the decoder I and others made at http://www.jounce.net/~maarken
has quite a bit more functionality than this and most other scripts do, and
is cross-platform.
it is a web-based decoder that brings you directly to the RS page the Cue
references to, as well as handling books, dvds, cd's, computer hardware and
software, and many food items.
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 03:20:48PM -0400, Bill Jonas wrote:
> Hi, all.
>
> I already sent this to Darxus last night, but I thought that I'd pass
> this around.
>
> The script that he posted last night looked good, but it didn't work for
> me; I would just get a couple of newlines whenever I scanned in one of
> the barcodes from the Radio Shack catalog. So I looked at the code, did
> a little experimenting, re-read
> http://slashdot.org/features/00/09/01/149223.shtml, and realized that
> the initial F10 character sequence was being sent along with the rest of
> the CueCat output, so I added an s/// command to get rid of it, and it
> now works perfectly for me. For those who like patches, here you go:
>
> ---begin patch---
> --- cueurl Mon Sep 4 06:08:49 2000
> +++ cueurl-new Mon Sep 4 06:09:30 2000
> @@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
> chomp $line;
> # Invert case.
> $line =~ tr/[a-z][A-Z]/[A-Z][a-z]/;
> + $line =~ s/^[^.]+(.+)$/\1/;
>
> # Connect to webserver.
> unless ($handle = IO::Socket::INET->new(Proto => 'tcp',
> ---end patch---
>
> (For those who don't like patches... look at the code and at the above,
> and edit the file appropriately.)
>
> Anyway, it works perfectly for me now. (I was seeing blank lines from the
> print statement; it wasn't matching any of the lines the server returned,
> thus leaving the variables with null values, but still printing the
> newlines.) Hope this helps.
>
> Bill
> --
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> That's a city in Bosnia. Right? | your love mail." -- Don Marti
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> on the intuitiveness of commands.) | http://www.harrybrowne.org/
>
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