Quoted text is from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, by Michael 
Mattias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

>Or does the standard just assume that "you have the data, 
>communications is a totally separate consideration?" (Which really 
>seems strange given the origin and original design of ANSI ASC X12 data 
>format).

I suspect that this is the case. In the bad old days of async comms you 
used to specify the number of data bits, stop bits, and parity used. 
This enabled the hardware/software to assign between the serial data 
stream and the computers bytes (normally octets).

Regards
Chris
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