command line interface?

[Darin Perusich]

Hello,

Does BOTS have a command line interface? I need to convert about 1000
x12 files into xml and I'm looking for a way to accomplish this
quickly. After reviewing the documentation there doesn't appear to be
any such functionality so I figured I'd ask.

--
Later,
Darin

[Alex Befu]

Is there a reason that you would need a command line interface? I only
ask because you can set up a file as the IN channel and dump all 1,000
files in there and bots will go through all of them. ( you can set
these things using the botswebserver, if you don't know what that is,
here is a link to the wiki about how to start it up:
http://code.google.com/p/bots/wiki/StartGetBotsRunning )

[Darin Perusich]

I've never used BOTS, or any EDI tools before, and I'm trying to get
something up and running quickly. I was hoping I could just run all
the files through a "for loop" to convert them.

--
Later,
Darin

[hjeb...@gmail.com]

what xml?
there are many xml- 'standards', and many more self-defined.
(to me the question sound like: cna I convert x12 into ascii.)

henk-jan

[Darin Perusich]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 2:53 PM, hjeb...@gmail.com <hjeb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> what xml?
> there are many xml- 'standards', and many more self-defined.
> (to me the question sound like: cna I convert x12 into ascii.)
>

Ascii would be fine for now, but the final destination will be a
Postgresql database. For now I have about 5gb worth of single line
files that need to be "transformed" into something, anything that's
more readable, so my DBA can evaluate it.

[hjeb...@gmail.com]

that something is often called 'in-house file' in edi.
waht can your DBA import?
fixed records, csv, xml?

henk-jan

[Darin Perusich]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 5:50 PM, hjeb...@gmail.com <hjeb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> that something is often called 'in-house file' in edi.
> waht can your DBA import?
> fixed records, csv, xml?
>

Fixed record or csv would be fine for import. If it helps I'm told
these files are in 837 format. Any instruction you can provide on how
to set this up in BOTS would be great.