EDI in linux

[mpdickens]

Hi Ben!

Yeah, almost all accounting/mrp packages can throw up data as comma 
delimited... Regarding languages for edi, I like perl... For several
reasons:

1.) It flawlessly interfaces into every major database offering.
2.) Perl slices and dices ascii files better than any other language.
3.) No other language can format text as well as perl.
4.) You name the markup language and Perl can understand it/produce it.
5.) It's totally portable.
6.) Perl has proven performance on the web.
7.) Proven performance internally (Non web/intranet)in IT departments.
8.) Gillions of progammers know how to code with it.
9.) Perl by it's very nature lends itself to open source.
10.) Perl is supported by many products (From browsers to RDBMS's).

The hard part of designing an edi system is figuring out the 
architecture of a data wheel that conforms to the ANSI X12 Version 4.010 
standard while retaining flexiblity
regarding individual trading partner needs (Data format compatibility 
issues....)

Best

Peck





Ben Duncan wrote:
> FWIW, most of the WinSlut Based EDI packages simply take a Comma 
> delimited format,
> outputted from whatever Accounting/MRP package is used.