Fresh & Easy receipt printer test

Look what I found hanging out of the receipt printer at the self-service checkout at Fresh & Easy (grocery store) the other day:

Some of the screwiness of this image is due to my handheld scanner. The actual receipt was not printed crookedly.

Here's a transcript so people can find this by searching on Google:

--------------------------------------------
   NCR 734x-F307 Printer: Thermal Receipt   
  NCR 71xx Printer/MICR/CD/ChkScan Service
                   Object
   OPOS Spec Compliancy Version: 1.7.000
--------------------------------------------
 OPOS POSPrinter Control 1.10.001 [Public,
             by CRM/RCS-Dayton]
   OPOS Spec Compliancy Version: 1.10.001
--------------------------------------------
         NCR Printer Service Object
     NCR Release File Version: 2.5.1.50
--------------------------------------------
SH/SW: 0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST
DH/SW: 0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST
SH/DW: 0123456789:;<=>
DH/DW: 0123456789:;<=>
--------------------------------------------
              CharacterSet-437
(List-437,737,850,852,858,860,862,863,864,86
   5,866,874,932,1252,101); LineChars-44
                (List-44,56)
 !"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJK
LMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvw
xyz{|}~

Getting git 1.8.0 to work with PuTTY/plink/pageant 0.62

I am successfully running the following things together:

• Windows 8
• Git-1.8.0-preview20121022.exe from here
• PuTTY, plink, and pageant, all version 0.62, from here

I'm not sure if the Startup menu exists any more in Windows 8. To make pageant.exe run at startup and load my key, I used regedit to add a registry value under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run. The value is a String, the name can be whatever, and the value should be something like:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\PuTTY\pageant.exe" "C:\your\private\key.ppk"

By default, the version of SSH that ships with msysgit does not try to access pageant. You have to configure git to use plink.exe instead. Lots of people on the internet will tell you that you must set the GIT_SSH environment variable to be the full path to plink.exe, but for some reason that wasn't working for me this time. I'm sure this is not optimal, but my solution was to move plink.exe to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin\ssh.exe", overwriting the original ssh.exe. (I saved a copy of the of the original ssh.exe just in case I need it later.)

Anyway, it works now so I can continue working on all of my favorite coding projects.

UPDATE: See my new and improved article entitled Git and PuTTY in Windows.