The Bar Code FAQ [http://www.azalea.com/FAQ.html] has valuable information, but is available only in [PDF]. BarCode1 FAQ [http://www.adams1.com/pub/russadam/faq.html] is an entirely different document. ---- ZZZ [http://www.linuxcanada.com/files/linuxpos_start1.2.10.pdf] is a point-of-sale application coded in Tcl. Archiver [http://www.narrabri.atnf.csiro.au/software_dev/archiving_station/archiver.html] is an archival application written in Tcl. One CueCat decoder [http://www.logorrhea.com/cuecat/] is written in Tcl. "A fully automated high-throughput HPLC-MS system ..." is an academic article which describes a Tcl-coded biochemical system which employs barcodes. Mads Linden writes, "i dont know if this will help you, but what i did was to download a 3of9 barcode font to my system and then just using that font when sending data to the printer extension from michael swartz. get the font here: http://www.adams1.com/pub/russadam/fonts.html ex. gdi text $hdc 50 50 -text "*MYBARCODESTRING*" -font "{3 of 9} 12" BarCode DataBase [http://sourceforge.net/projects/bcdb] is coded in [Perl]. [GNU] Barcode [http://ar.linux.it/software/#barcode] is a command-line executable. ---- [Harald Oehlmann] and [kroc] are in the barcode business. ---- [RS] played with [Code 39 generation] And [PS] did the same for [EAN-13 generation] ---- There are "barcode printers" which accept textual Zebra Programming Language (ZPL). Tcl is as good at generating ZPL as any likely competitor. "Barcode Writer in Pure [Postscript]" [http://freshmeat.net/projects/postscriptbarcode] is open source. ---- [Category Barcode]