From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/17925 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robert Bihlmeyer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: need advice from the master Date: 19 Oct 1998 18:01:59 +0200 Organization: Zik-Zak Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035156536 3352 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:28:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:28:56 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from fisher.math.uh.edu (fisher.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.35]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA27388 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 12:08:22 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by fisher.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAB02935; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 11:02:32 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 19 Oct 1998 11:02:34 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [209.195.19.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA12934 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 11:02:20 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from mars.zserv.tuwien.ac.at (mars.zserv.tuwien.ac.at [193.170.75.15]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA27240 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 12:01:57 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (qmail 20281 invoked by uid 524); 19 Oct 1998 16:01:59 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Attribution: Robbe In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "17 Oct 1998 23:53:24 +0200" Original-Lines: 29 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.11/XEmacs 20.4 - "Emerald" Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:17925 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:17925 Hi, >>>>> On 17 Oct 1998 23:53:24 +0200 >>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen said: Lars> Wes Hardaker writes: >> (and my books don't come with any ports on them anyway). You need the Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy for that. >> How do you do it? Lars> It's very, very, very simple. I have one of those bar-code Lars> reader thingies that I've increased the current on, and I've Lars> attached it to the fan in the ceiling, and it scans everything Lars> that's in the general couch area. If it sees something that Lars> looks vaguely like a book, it scans it, OCR's the cover, and Lars> then tells Emacs about it. Lars> Couldn't be simpler. Just scanning the ISBN-bar-code would be simpler, wouldn't it? Or haven't you written the ISBNDB backend yet? Robbe -- Robert Bihlmeyer reads: Deutsch, English, MIME, Latin-1, NO SPAM!