The tiny converter is a piece of code which can act as an EDIFACT converter. The converter will accept incoming EDIFACT messages (transmissons) and will produce some kind of output. Which format of output it may be is up to you - just write a little backend module, and that's it. The intention to write such a program was not to produce a highly featured EDIFACT converter but to produce a piece of code, which shows how an EDIFACT converter could be designed. Tiny converter of course is not the only way to do it. May be you are interested in some code which can read and process EDIFACT elements, you may find the tiny converter useful.
Development has been started on Linux and will remain there. It is simply to expensive for a private person like me to buy a legal copy of some W32 tools. There is a version of the converter (the tc-0.02 package) which is compilable by Borland(R) C++ (Version 4 at least), but this version will not be continued.
I think yes it is. It is known that the tiny converter is used in a productive environment where it works well and does not produce unexpected outputs. But, again, it isn't a full featured converter but it can perfectly used in small environments where no much of different message types and/or senders are used.
You can read the documentation online. See the download section for getting the
documentation files as a hole package.
Just note: The documentation (as in the most cases of computer projects) isn't really complete. If you
may want to help getting it complete, just email to us at webmaster@edifactory.de.
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including all copyright statements is delivered, too.
Just take a look to the download area.
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