On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Jason Rennie wrote:
> Anybody had much experience with telstra's EDI network ?
Yes.. Unfortunately.. It's a big piece of poo.
> It is used by lots of automotive companies, my fathers company has had to
> set it up, and where stuck using the godawful, completely ancient dos app
> to do the work.
>
> Anybody know of any linux stuff that can talk to the EDI network ?
None, Zip.
There was a SCO client at one time in the very very distant past.. but
it's out of date, and unsupported.. (and unobtainable).
CEA uses the tradelink client to send/recv the EDI packets using DOSEMU
and some krafty batch files.
However, there is a slightly easier solution.. If you go to an EDI
provider called "NEIS", they have a service where they can send/recv the
EDI messages you require, for you (Into/From any EDI network including
Tradelink), and then convert them to whatever you want, and use FTP to
transfer them to and from NEIS.
It will cost a bit more than say using Tradelink's software.. but you wont
need to go through the shannagins we had to.
Heh.. oh yeah.. Tradelink.. I remember getting a bill, where I worked it
out that it cost us something along the lines of $6000 to send the
contents of 2 floppies intrastate over the period of 3 months.
We could have put floppies daily, in Anset air freight express satchels,
and still had some spare change.
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