Re: DTAUS format

From: Martin Schulze (joey@kyllikki.infodrom.north.de)
Date: Fri Aug 03 2001 - 17:42:39 CEST


Hi Jim!

Jim Bosman wrote:
> I find your e-mail adress at http://www.infodrom.ffis.de/projects/dtaus/
> and saw that you are a specialist in the DTAUS format.

I wouldn't call us a "specialist" but well... it's a question of
definition...

> In the format definition there is described that in the header (0128A)
> at position 128
> the currency is proccesed. When this position is empty the currency is DEM.
> If this position is 1 the currency is EUR.
>
> I recieved a couple files where this position is a 2. The customer said that the
> currency of the statement is EUR.
>
> Maybe you know more about this.

I'd have to find the docs about this format. You can ask about any German
bank for an update of DTAUS specification wrt EURO. It'd be in german but
you'd get the idea.

Maybe some software thinks about " " is DEM, while !" " is EUR.

> PS: Is it normal that there is a different betwwen the Dredner/Postbank
> and DB files?
> The DB files have always a fixedlenght of the lines, and the other
> don't.

There are only fixed length fields. There are only 128-byte-blocks in the
system (iirc). All blocks are 128 byte large or multiples of this. The
system won't be able to handle non-fixed length fields.

Gruesse,

        Joey

-- 
Unix is user friendly ...  It's just picky about its friends.



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