Here's one link http://www.gnu.org/software/barcode/barcode.html
If you Google for "free barcode" you should get about a ton of hits - maybe
a tad more if the wind is blowing in the right direction.
Bob S.
"walterbyrd" <walterbyrd@iname.com> wrote in message
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>I want to connect a barcode reader to an old msdos laptop through the
> serial port.
>
> I want to be able to read into an text files.
>
> Any software available to help me with this?
>