RE: Bar Code input into SE SQL

>My environment is Informix-SQL Version 7.20.UE2 and SE Version 7.24 UC8 >Solaris Sparc 7 on an Ultra 10. > >I have 5 dumb terminals connected to the system. > >1) Would I have to use a PERFORM screen, dumb terminal, and a bar code >reader together to input data from a bar code into the database? This will work. >2) Is it possible to use a remote scanner not attached to a dumb >terminal? So will this, with the correct scanner and software, basically the scanner software needs to load the barcode the the clipboard buffer and then you just paste it in, or alternatively the act of scanning will convert the barcode and paste it your current cursor position, >3) Would each column in the PERFORM screen have to match the appropriate >UPC style 1-dimensional bar code? Uh!! >4) Would using the 2-dimensional bar code - like United Parcel Service - >be incompatible with a PERFORM screen because there are multiple columns >of data in one code? > >Thank you very much. Uh!!! Paul Watson