I suppose it could be because they can get barcode readers in places they
can't get a keyboard. Also, I've seen keyboards that are used for Cantonese
characters--pretty much the same number of keys as a standard U.S. Keyboard,
but each key has 4 or more functions according to which control key you
press.
Here on the home front, there's a committee meeting to determine acceptable
values of a single character "Yes/No" flag. Not the conditions in which
it'll be set, mind you, But whether "Y" = "YES" and "N" = "NO" on the data
file. It's "Y/N" on the input screen--and will be "Y/N" when the data's
entered on the other side of the transaction. I suppose a case COULD be
made for "1/0" but "Puh-leeze!".
I've been told to halt coding until the committee decides.
I suppose next week they'll be meeting to determine if the digit "1" = a
numeric ONE, "2" = two, etc etc.
Another place I worked at years ago had a "SEX" flag for it's customers bio
file--it had 7 acceptable values BEYOND "M" or "F"--including the fabled "Y"
and "N" which stood for "Youth" and "Not-reported" not "Yes/No". I don't
remember the other values.
GEESH! It's no wonder the rest of the world is kicking our @([log in to unmask]
-----Original Message-----
From: Johnson, Tracy [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 12:23 PM
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Subject: [HP3000-L] Barcode Abuse
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Here is a good one that is going on today.
Our plant in China wants to implement bar coding for some data entry
documents.
So they turn on MANMAN's Barscan module.
They print out a bar code sheet containing bar codes with single digits, and
some zeroes:
7 8 9
4 5 6
1 2 3
0 00 000
^CR
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Presuming they also have keyboards and not hand held only devices, can
anyone tell me what is philosophically wrong with this picture?
BT
Tracy Johnson
MSI Schaevitz Sensors
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