Hm, punch cards, that was what that old machine was they moved out in the hall when the brand new print terminals were installed. I see your punch cards and raise you greenbar!
Leah ________________________________ From: Earl Wertheimer <[email protected]> To: Michael Mattias/LS <[email protected]>; [email protected] Sent: Thu, March 3, 2011 1:43:37 PM Subject: Re: [EDI-L] EDI Definition help?!? Michael > Since ya gots to put in those delimiters, ya gots to put 'em 'somewhere' so why not every 80 or 128 characters? Probably because punch cards (remember those?) has 80 columns ;-) If punch cards were 20% larger, we would probably have 100 character blocking... Earl Wertheimer [email protected] http://www.spe-edi.com [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/
