Re: [81attendees] What is it at the bottom of restaurant receipts?

Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com> Tue, 09 August 2011 18:51 UTC

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On Aug 9, 2011, at 2:46 PM, Worley, Dale R (Dale) wrote:
> And somewhere on Revenue Quebec's web site I found an image with
> annotations about the various parts of the receipt that are generated
> by the SRM.  But nothing explaining the dingbats.

Quite possibly it is just a binary buffer dump, possibly due to a bug in the cash register software, or was put in for debugging.