On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 22:37, Douglas Phillipson wrote: > I have a Cuecat barcode scanner that connects "inline" with the > keyboard. It works fine with Win2k but won't scan properly under Fedora > (or any other Linux for that matter). It should look just like a > keyboard, I think. Does anyone have one working? I am not using the "inline" Cuecat (I think I remember reading it did not work with Linux), but the USB version works perfectly. I just plugged it in to my FC2 system and it simply worked. > > Also, is there an open source replacement for readerware? Readerware > scans book ISBN's and looks them up on amazon.com to get their titles so > you can catalog your library of books. Actually, readerware works just fine under Linux since it is written entirely in Java. Actually that is what I use the above Cuecat for, though admittedly I haven't started my book collection and only have all the DVDs in so far. > > Thanks > > Doug P HTH, --Rob
