4D Barcodes (summary and followup info)

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From: price carl wayne
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1992 01:18

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A few days ago I posted wondering about externals to do postal barcodes   
in 4D.  The answers I got were to use a barcode font.  
Since then I have gotten more info from the Post Office, and a simple 
barcode font will not work.  The reason is that the barcode is not the 
same as regular store barcodes (a simpler barcode because it only needs
to handle numbers), the barcode needs leading and following bars, and
the barcode needs its last group to be a correction digit.  

So I ask again, Does anyone know of an external for 4D that creates
postal barcodes.  If not does anyone know the specs of externals and
or sample code so that I could try and code one.

Thanks in advance.

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--Carl
   
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Carl W. Price		 	*      * Technological progress is like an   * 
Computer Engineering Student	*      * axe in the hands of a pathological  *
Oregon State University		*      * criminal.                           *
pricec@prism.cs.orst.edu	*      *       ---Albert Einstein            *

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