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Re: Concatentating interchanges
> I'm new to EDI and was reviewing a source module where multiple x12
> files were appended to one another prior to transmission. Is this a
> common practice?
Well, since there is no such thing as an "X12 file" it's hard to say.. BUT...
Any one physical file (or stream) will often contain multiple *interchanges* ..
and realistically, any EDI translator worth more
than, say, three bucks should not complain about this.
Although ...
I'm sure many in the healthcare industry remember HCFA's "PC-PRINT" (for '835'
remittance advice) program... which simply could not
handle more than one interchange in a file. But since PC-PRINT was free, it met
the "three-dollar test." (Current version of
PC-PRINT *does* handle multiple interchanges per file).
(And of course, some of you will also recall the "PC-PRINT FRONT END" program
which broke up a file into one interchange per
physical file.... I remember it ... because I wrote it).
Michael Mattias
Tal Systems, Inc.
Racine WI
http://www.talsystems.com
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