DTAUS(5)DTAUS(5)NAMEdtaus - Converter for DTAUS files
DESCRIPTION
The dtaus(1) program reads and writes German DTAUS files. DTAUS is an
semi-acronym for DatenTr�gerAUStausch. It is used by German credit
institutes in order to implement money exchanges between accounts and
credit institutes. These files are always called DTAUS0.TXT.
Since they are shipped in a weird ascii format that is not quite read‐
able and writable for human beings a special control format was
invented. The dtaus(1) program reads and writes such a control file
and generates a proper DTAUS file if requested or decodes one.
CONTROL FILE
The control file implements a very simple format which was invented
only for use with the dtaus(1) program. Like with many *nix configura‐
tion files empty lines and those beginning with a hash mark (``#'') are
ignored. The remaining file is splitted into three major parts: one
BEGIN record (representing the A record), several regular records (rep‐
resenting C records) and one optional END record (representing the E
record), which is ignored when the control file is read but is
extracted from the bank file if one is decoded.
Here's a short sample for a control file:
BEGIN {
Art type
Name Martin Schulze
Konto 123545
BLZ 2004002
Ausfuehrung 23.12.2001
Euro
}
{
Transaktion transaction
Name Martha Schulze
Konto 98832
BLZ 2004003
Betrag 20.00
Zweck Geb�hr Wohnheimnetz
Text Anschlu� u. 11+12.97
}
...
Please note that several field names are used in both the BEGIN and the
regular record. When used in the BEGIN record they denote your name
and your bank account. When used in a regular record they are affili‐
ated with your customers data.
You may use up to 15 fields entitled as Text. They will be recorded
one by one and stored into additional data records using the same
order. This way you could add a detailed description of the type of
money transfer if you like. The contents of the field Zweck are most
probably what the customer will see on their bank statements.
The field Ausfuehrung is optional and denotes the day when the entire
transaction should be processed. The date has to be given as
DD.MM.YYYY and will be translated into the resulting bank file liter‐
ally. It may not be younger than the creation date of the file which
will automatically be inserted by dtaus(1). The processing date also
may not be more than 15 years later than the creation date.
Explanation of type
One of the following:
LK Lastschrift Kundenseitig
GK Gutschrift Kundenseitig
LB Lastschrift Bankseitig
GB Gutschrift Bankseitig
Explanation of transaction
One of the following:
Einzug Bankeinzug
Gutschrift
�berweisung
Verm�gen [JJJJ]
Verm�genswirksame Leistung mit Sparzulage. Als Argument kann
das Jahr angegeben werden, f�r das diese Leistung gilt. Wenn es
weggelassen, wird, verwendet dtaus das aktuelle Jahr. Vom Jahr
wird nur die letzte Ziffer verwendet, es mu� daher auch nicht
vollst�ndig angegeben werden.
Vermoegen [JJJJ]
Wie Verm�gen, jedoch ohne Umlaut.
E-Cash Lastschrift aus Verf�gung im elecctronic Cash-System
E-Cash-A
Lastschrift aus Verf�gung im elecctronic Cash-System mit
ausl�ndischer Karte.
You may only use one of these for the entire file. You are not allowed
to switch between Einzug and Gutschrift within the same file. If you
require the credit institute to process both types, you'll have to pro‐
vide two separate diskettes.
Support for Euro
From January 1st 2002 the currency in many European countries, Germany
is among these, changes to Euro. Hence, money transfer changes from DM
(formerly known as ``Deutsche Mark'') to Euro. The format specifica‐
tion of DTAUS was meant for DM but was modified in 2001 to support Euro
as well. The current version of dtaus(1) supports both currencies. It
defaults to using Euro, however. To switch to DM, simply add the key‐
word DM (or Euro respectively if this version was compiled without Euro
support as default) to the BEGIN record. If no currency keyword is
given, the compiled in decides (upstream source defaults to Euro).
Character Encoding
German Umlauts are converted into two 7-bit characters on the fly so
you don't need to care about them. Since the DTAUS0.TXT file only uses
uppercase letters every text is also converted to uppercase.
Except for the way records are delimited the format should be self
explanatory.
SEE ALSOdtaus(1).
DTAUS files use a special but simple and publically documented format.
It is included in the distribution of dtaus(1) as dtaus.txt.
17 November 2001 DTAUS(5)
