Matt - its SO TRUE - because, even though EDI is "Supposed" to be a Standard - all the Trading partners use or do it slightly differently - so we have to end up hard-coding all this Crap in our programs to make the EDI stuff work. Its NUTS!
-K- -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of M Jarvis Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2012 2:53 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: EDI, Hex & VFP - Oh My... On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Ted Roche <[email protected]> wrote: > So, your vendor, in choosing an upper 8-bit character, is implementing > a "non-standard EDI format" which I can't even type without lol. > The nice thing about having very explicit STANDARDS is that there are so many to choose from.... <g> -- Matt Jarvis Eugene, Oregon USA _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/289ea162f5642645b5cf64d624c66a140e260...@us-ny-mail-002.waitex.net ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.

