It had been nearly 15 years since I'd seen it and then, just last month, it showed up again. Turned out the Customer was sending it because the supplier had requested it, long ago and now both sides were struggling to deal with the blocked data, when both would have preferred to simply wrap or not and no one thought to ask the question, they both just put time and effort into maintaining an antiquated format "because that's the way we've always done it".
Ask, people, ask. Leah ________________________________ From: Chris Johnson <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thu, March 3, 2011 4:54:49 AM Subject: Re: [EDI-L] EDI Definition help?!? Quoted text is from <[email protected]>, by Rachel Foerster & Associates <[email protected]> >Samantha, as a point of clarification - the EDI (especially X12) >standards >are graphical character based and NOT on bytes. So any blocksize would >be >based on characters and not bytes. That is an interesting point. I have always [1] considered the blocking of data to be a part of the transport mechanism, and therefore agnostic towards the specifications of the actual data which was being moved. Regards Chris [1] Since it is nearly twenty years since I last encountered blocked data this is not a fresh opinion. -- Chris Johnson mobile:+44 (0)7785 302122 Fax: +44 (0)870 0519 818 EDI website http://www.edimatrix.co.uk EDIMatrix Ltd work: 0845 126 0680 or +44 20 8778 1402 Registered in UK no. 2777624 Reg.Office: 34 Sydenham Rd, London SE26 5QF [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ ... Please use the following Message Identifiers as your subject prefix: <SALES>, <JOBS>, <LIST>, <TECH>, <MISC>, <EVENT>, <OFF-TOPIC> Job postings are welcome, but for job postings or requests for work: <JOBS> IS REQUIRED in the subject line as a prefix.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EDI-L/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
