Modify Data Display

This is not the Lounge and that is not helpful.

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http://www.sephail.net/articles/magstripe/
http://www.instructables.com/id/Arduino-magnetic-stripe-decoder/

Very rough google scan.

No help there dbrunton.
We have mag stripe readers and I didn't see anything about modifying the display to keep from showing certain alpha-numeric characters.

More links.  These include source code samples which you'd have to modify I imagine to not display the end characters.

http://www.msblabs.org/magstripe/
http://stripesnoop.sourceforge.net/
http://stripesnoop.sourceforge.net/faq.html

I'm not sure what I would do with source code samples.

...but I guess I'll look when I have some spare time just for the fun of being totally confused.
I'm not ready for that tonight.  Maybe next week.

Did you notice my comment: "I have ZERO experience in writing & implementing code." ?

>> "I have ZERO experience in writing & implementing code."

Did I notice?  Not really.

There are binaries included with some of the links I gave.  You might be able to hire a cheap programmer to modify them to do what you want.

"Did I notice?  Not really."  :-\

Thanks for your input.
It might have been better directed if you had actually read my comments and request, though.


Hopefully someone has knowledge of "any tiny freeware/shareware applications that would allow the selective display of data from a mag stripe reader."

http://www.download.com/Exeba-Eswipe-Reader-Application-Software/3000-2064_4-10193678.html?tag=lst-1&cdlPid=10193679
Dunno if the free trial version is fully operational.
Rgds

thanks!

I'll look tomorrow since this is work related. ;-)

you also have lots of stuff here http://www.e-scan.com/fileslib/files.htm

Too bad they are just demos :-/  but maybe ares, emule or a torrent will provide you with the full version (if the demo is not enough for what you need).
Hope it works, olde goode lizard.

Are we talking about illegal adquicition of software in EE???

no???

I thought I hear that... weird...

What does "aDquiCition" mean? Anyway, I meant to say that older, fully-operational demos may be found online and... hold on,.. I hear a siren...

We need something we can give to a customer if we run across this display issue in the future.

The application from Exeba isn't what we need. It's a communication interface for use with "smart" readers and is way too expensive anyway.

I'll peruse the e-scan link when I have a few moments.

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Thanks for the effort, though!

this is looking grim

"...endangered species."

heh!

We'll see.
There's been a real push for the smart chip & contactless cards to totally replace mag stripes, but smart chip cards just don't have the massive infrastructure over here that you see across the pond. The readers are more expensive plus the chips are subject to ESD damage.

It's interesting to note that the contactless card  formats (Mifare, etc.) can be scanned by a total stranger who is nearby, or a merchant when you walk through the door or even pass by the establishment.
You might as well just walk down the street tossing out cards with your encoded information printed on them.

When everybody starts getting their contactless card data lifted by  anyone who is within 5-10 feet of them there will be such a cry throughout the land that surely they will let my mag stripes go!

I'll look at that stripesnoop later.
Thanx!

Ok so you already have the programming ability since you create the cards now.  What software are you using to do the programming now?

We use multiple machines/applications to encode.
Encoding is not the issue.

This is at the customer end of the process.

The issue is to be able to read the encoded data [either by a USB mag stripe reader and something like Notepad or Wordpad or some other basic display]  and prevent the alpha-numeric characters that indicate the beginning & ending of the data tracks from showing in the display.

These characters are integral to the encoding process and cannot be removed from the process.
We don't intend to try.
We just don't want them to display in a given situation.

We have no use for a high end application. We just need a quick & dirty application that can allow for modifying the display.
Something free or near-free that we could give to a customer to use if this need arises again.

This may not even exist outside of somebody's home-grown code. I don't know.
It's beginning to look like there's nothing out there that would be of use to us.

germanpenn> even though you didn't provide an answer I could use, you were the only one who actually read my question and attempted to give me what I wanted, so the points go to you for being able to read & taking the time to do so.   Thanks for the effort.

Wow, thanx StoneG! Really dude, you could have asked for a refund and no one would have complained! Thanx a lot!