I have a couple of Flic barcode scanners that have been collecting dust on the shelf for a couple of years. Last time I used these I was using Windows XP as my primary operating system. Just the other day I installed Tellico and decided to catalogue my huge collection of books. A barcode scanner sure would make my life easier. So now I needed a Linux driver for these fine devices. It took me about 6 hours to conclude that the only software wedge available for the Flic on Linux is closed source payware and only supports tethered connections not Bluetooth. As a nostalgic guy who dreams of the "good old days, when men where men and wrote their own drivers" I thought; "hey, it's only serial communication, how hard can it be?". So I sat down and wrote my own software wedge for the Flic barcode scanner in Perl. It took me all of one night. And now I'm sharing it with you:

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