Cash Drawers

[Doug Luurs]

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> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf 
> Of Lerebours, Jose
> Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 9:11 AM
> To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: Cash Drawers
> 
> 
> Howdy!
> 
> Working on a project where cash drawers will be
> used.  I have not worked with these since for
> ever ...
> 
> Situation:
>  - Server in HQ
>  - Two or more work station per remote site
>  - At least one cash drawer per site
>  - Using thin clients (MaxSpeed)
>  - Connecting to server via VPN through www
> 
> Question:
>  How could one open cash drawer from server
>  running filePro application?
> 
> The last time I worked with this it was easy,
> I just had to send a CR to local serial port
> and drawer opened.  This was simple since the
> drawer was attached to serial port on dumb
> terminal and output was sent to local.
> 
> This time around, I am facing a totally new
> scenario, specially since I will have two
> stations sharing one cash drawer.
> 
> I have thought of using cash drawer as a printer
> on remote site and using 'netcat' to open the
> drawer.  Now, the question would then be, what
> drawer could I use for this?  The way I figure,
> it would have to be parallel or USB based, so I
> could use print server and easily hit drawer from
> filePro application.
> 
> Any suggestions on method and/or which drawer to 
> use will be appreciated.
> 
> Thank you all in advance!
> 
> 
> Jose Lerebours
> 
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The ones I've worked with before was just sending a "^G (ASCII 7)" to
it.

In your 'configuration'  I think you might look at a Avocent(Equinox) 
ESP-2 MI Serial Hub. (I use this hardware to run LEAN Measure (LED
Message)
Boards.. REALLY Easy to do).

You configure this unit with a IP, install the software drives on your
O/S and your all set.

Then all you need to do in your filepro processing is a simple Export
command
To the 'Port' that the drawer is on.

Example (Our Configuration):-

SCO /dev/tty01e1 is the Port #
(zz below is the Message - It would be CHR("7") or whatever command it
is)

   Then: fn = "/dev/tty01e1"  
 50  -------   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -
-
        If:

       Then: EXPORT ascii out2= (fn) -X

 51  -------   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -
-
        If:

       Then: out2(1) = zz 
 52  -------   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -
-
        If:

       Then: write out2  

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