On Wednesday 20 August 2003 11:45 am, Deb Baddorf wrote:
> Hi all --
>      I have a barcode reader with my tape robot.   I've tested the 
robot
> and got it playing nicely with amanda;  nut I haven't yet told her 
that
> it can do barcodes.
>       In what fashion does amanda make use of the bar codes,   
assuming
> I tell her that I have a reader (havereader = 1)?
> 
> Does amanda use them while finding tapes,  or just report them to me
> for my visual usage?

AFAIK, the amtape will use the file changer-barcodes to find a tape.  
I am not 100% sure of that because I wrote my own changer.

> Does the barcode label need to match the amlabel string?

No.

> (it is kind of long for barcoding....)
> Or is the barcode  just *associated* with the amlabel
> (in the mentioned barcode database)?
>
> i.e.  is  UX0001  associated with  MyTapeStringDaily-034
> by the barcode database
>       or does it have to actually *say*   MyTapeStringDaily-034
> on the barcode?

When amlabel writes a label it add it and the barcode to the file 
changer-barcodes.  If there is no barcode available the then barcode 
is a recorded as -1.

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Stephen Carville
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