From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,89a7c6bc348eba8a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: jerry@jvdsys.stuyts.nl (Jerry van Dijk) Subject: Re: UN/EDIFACT Communication standard. Date: 1999/03/25 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 458864944 References: <36F9104E.3CFB1230@pwfl.com> Organization: * JerryWare *, Leiden, Holland Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-03-25T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Marin David Condic (condicma@bogon.pwfl.com) wrote: : I sort of stumbled on this communication standard called EDIFACT and I'm : wondering if anybody has any experience with it? Yes, although its popularity has gone down, it is still used heavily in logistical and supply-chain applications. : My curiosity is along these lines: 1) Is this standard in some way in : wide usage or are there more widely accepted standards? Well, at least over here it's is more or less _the_ standard. : 2) Has anybody : implemented record types, packages or other subsystems that provide any : level of reusable implementation of this standard (or parts of it)? Yes, but this is of course propriety software. : 3) The on-line document is - to say the least - confusing. Is there any : sort of simplified, distilled, "EDIFACT For Dummies" document that might : do something like show a simple record layout? (After glancing at some : of the message definitions, I couldn't seem to get to the point where : someone was saying something like "A date field will occupy 8 bytes - : four bytes for year, two bytes for month, two bytes for day...." The : info may be in there somewhere, but I got tired of digging.) Hmmm, I think we used several documents (this is about 5 years ago), but none that are in the public domain. regards, Jerry. -- -- Jerry van Dijk | Leiden, Holland -- Team Ada | jdijk@acm.org -- see http://stad.dsl.nl/~jvandyk