Re: CONTRL message woes

[Erlend NAGEL]

Steve X Lee SL wrote:
>
> Chris and anyone else,
>         Do you have any theory why Control or Aperack messages are seldomly used in
> the EDIFACT world?  I feel 997's are very useful and timesaving in X12.

I guess that an important reason is that the business applications in
many cases have no interface to accept negative or positive
confirmations. Which leaves the CONTRL as a 'support tool' for
technical support, but they may already have X.400 or OFTP transfer
acknowledgements.

rgds,

Erlend.

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