Reading magnetic strip card

[Ohmes, Matt]

I'm a little rusty and I don't have a manual with me, but you should be able
to call the SEP (separator) command.  That is a command the user can call to
change the ";" to any other single character. 
Hope that helps. :-)
Matt

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-----Original Message-----
From: Louis BROUILLETTE [mailto:Louis_Brouillette@UQTR.UQuebec.CA]
Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 2:11 PM
To: powerh-l@sphere.swau.edu
Subject: Reading magnetic strip card


Hi everyone,

I'm trying to read a magnetic strip containing the student id into a quick
screen.
My problem is that the string that I read begins with a ";", the command
separator.  It causes the entry field to be skipped.  I can't change the
separator character in the qkgo because users would kill me.  So my
question is: Is there a way to disable the separator character (or change
it to something else) for the period of time the input procedure is executed
?

Louis Brouillette
Analyste en informatique (DBA)
Universite du Quebec a Trois-Rivieres
Tel: (819) 376-5011 ext. 2435
Email: Louis_Brouillette@uqtr.uquebec.ca
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