Jason Rennie wrote:
> Currently we have it up and working but it is an awful system to use
> becasue of the large amounts of manual typing to process an order.
>
> Just hoping somebody might know of other software that works with it, or
> better yet had an idea how the thing works so we might be able to hack up
> some of our own software to do the job.
>
Sounds like us. We run Tradelink under dosemu/linux.
I'm not the guy who implemented this but from what I poked around,
we're generating keystrokes using dosemu's '-I' option :
#Below uses server's local screen
/usr/bin/dos -d -I 'keystroke "tlpoll.bat\r"' </dev/tty4 2>&1 >/dev/tty4
The tlpoll.bat file simply calls tlcopy (tradelink's copy utility) and then
calls tradelink ('tl -kauto') itself. The actual processing transfer is done there.
Tradelink seems to be using btrieve as a data manager.
Here's some information on dosemu from
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/DOSEMU-HOWTO
5.2. How can I run dos commands non-interactively?
You can do any of the following: 1. redirect a file to dosemu standard
input 2. use the keystroke configuration option and the -I command
line option as described in the README.txt file to specify keystrokes
on the command line that will act exactly as if you had typed them
within dosemu 3. use the mkdexe program to create a DEXE file - a
small DOS filesystem image containing just the program you want to run
- see the README.txt file for details.
> Maybe i'll go back to telstra and ask for some specs on the system.
>
> It didn't seem to difficult when i first looked at it.
>
> Does linux support the X400 protocol ?
The file transfer what we've setup this system to do.
We get our backend ERP system doing the actual EDI translation
( though tradelink can do it too.)
I can ask around here if you've got more questions
Regards,
Sonam
>
> Jason
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