Scanning

[Fine]

When any person enters any shop and buy some items then goes to where he
pays the prices of his items, the person there make scanning to each item to
know what's the price?
I am asking how this is done? what's program Language used to create this
program scanning ?
and what's the name of this thing that I can read to know this secret?
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[Andrew Morton]

Re: Scanning

Fine wrote:

When any person enters any shop and buy some items then goes to where
he pays the prices of his items, the person there make scanning to
each item to know what's the price?
I am asking how this is done? what's program Language used to create
this program scanning ?
and what's the name of this thing that I can read to know this secret?

This isn't exactly the right newsgroup; you'd want
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.pos

For non-MS info, you could start at

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point-of-sale

Andrew