IdealPOS WTF stop begin so picky!!

So, not only do i installs servers but i'm a dab hand at installing POS systems.  My last post below mentioned that i'm doing this because i sometimes forget how i got shit working well this post is one of those posts!!

We sell IdealPOS and this system is great, but sometimes the hardware we want to put it on isn't or is it the other way around?  Anyway i have an HP ap5000 POS system this system is compact and great for the POS market, except IdealPOS doesn't like serial MAG stripe readers the only thing serial IdealPOS likes i think are receipt printers.

So this MAG reader doesn't work in IDealPOS so what the FUCK do i do, the boss i saying get it working, i'm not a fucking miracle maker!! AM I!??!!?!...or am I?

We get these AP5000 from Sektor so i give Dave Whitty a ring and ask him can he find something that can make these Serial MSR translate into Keyboard Wedge.....Dave is a Genius!!

Datalogic do a utility that can do this translation, install it make the neccassary configuration and you're away.  The ap5000 comes with a MSR configuration utilty which you need to modify:

PACKAGE
FS = none FE0 = CR FE1 = none Error = None Check = None

after that the MSR will work as WB Wedge!

The Customer Line Display that comes with the ap5000 is also a tricky on because it uses a usual BUAD rate 38400 well its not THAT usual but still got me for awhile, still HP you need more INFO on this, i had to download the JPOS driver and install it to find out that there is a PDF in that driver package that explains which BAUD rate to use ZzzZZzzzz.  So after a few minutes i sort it out: go into IdealPOS and select customer display under terminal options set the TYPE to Epson DM-Dxxx set the COM port to 2 by default or 1 (The display doesnt work on COM3) set the SETTINGS at 38400,n,8,1 set your Display TExt and you are away.

OMG STOP BEGIN SO FUSSY!!!!!

-Fr33ze