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[Walter Vaughan]

Fairlight wrote:

> Question here, regarding a sales blurb fP-Tech sent out:
> So how is it they're going to support it on *nix?  Anyone have any idea?

I don't know for a fact, but since fpGI runs on SCO-Unix and variants, I 
am guessing that the hooks for this are built into the fpGI windows clients.

I just about coughed when I saw the price of $3995 for a single user 
application that included the device, but it includes a copy of fpGI 
server and a couple of GI-client licenses.

Fingerprint readers cost less than $200, with many available for less 
than half that. However they are typically designed to block access to 
the entire PC, rather then sending the fingerprint signature as input to 
a data field.

If I were Bob Rassmussen, I'd just add in API's from different finger 
scanners (I found several online) and add it into AnzioWin and call it 
AnzioWinID (whatever) and have a solution that doesn't require changes 
to any code nor require fpGI.

Make it no different than using a barcode wedge to input data into 
filepro fields.

If I had unlimited time, I'd get me one of those parallel port finger 
scanners, and 'speriment. I bet it's not rocket science to read the 
parallel port even from unix.

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Walter