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.TH DTAUS 1 "11 November 2001" "" ""
.SH NAME
dtaus \- Converter for DTAUS files
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B dtaus
.RB [ " \-d "
.IR dtaus " ]"
.RB [ " \-c "
.IR control " ]"
.RB [ " \-b "
.IR begleit " ]"
.RB [ " \-o "
.IR kontroll " ]"
.BR -dtaus " | " -control
.SH DESCRIPTION
This program can read and write german DTAUS files.  DTAUS is an
acronym for 
.BR D aten T räger AUS tausch.
It is used by german credit institutes in order to manage money
exchanges between accounts and credit institutes.

.SH OPTIONS
You have to specify at one of
.BR \-dtaus " or " \-control .

  -dtaus        Erzeugt eine Bankdatei
  -control      Liest eine Bankdatei und erzeugt die Kontrolldateien

  -d <dtaus>    Bankdatei [dtaus0.txt]
  -c <control>  Steuerdatei [dtaus0.ctl]
  -b <begleit>  Begleitzettel für die Bank dtaus0.doc]
  -o <kontroll> Kontrolldatei zum Abheften [dtaus0.sik]

.SH "CONTROL FILE"
The control file has a very simple format.  Empty lines and those
beginning with a hash mark are ignored.  The remainder is splitted
into three parts, one BEGIN record, several regular records and one
END record, which is being ignored and created by the program.

For a complete description please refer to
.I dtaus.txt
and
.BR dtaus (5)
from this distribution.

.SH "RETURN VALUES"
On success, zero is returned.  On error, 1  is  returned.

.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR dtaus (5).

DTAUS files use a special but simple and freely documented format.
It is included in the distribution of dtaus as dtaus.txt.