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Re: BIN segment question
Everything is binary when you get right down to it. Robbi could be
sending an HL7 message, which is codified as XML (in ASCII - or,
technically, UTF-8), within the BIN segment of the HIPAA standard 275
Claims Attachment transaction set.
Addressing Robbi's other comment: "Sorry, but for this non-math major
the description of element 784 'The length in integral octets of the
binary data' is a little intimidating.....". You don't need math. You
need a foreign language, as "octet" is just an effete, fancy-pants
French way of saying "8 bit byte."
William J. Kammerer
Novannet, LLC.
Columbus, US-OH 43221-3859
+1 (614) 487-0320
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Brandt" <
To: "Robbi McClane" < <
Sent: Wednesday, 14 January, 2004 01:51 PM
Subject: Re: [EDI-L] BIN segment question
If BIN02 contains 100 ASCII characters, BIN01 would contain the value of
100. What is not clear to me is why you are sending ASCII in a segment
intended for binary data.
At 01:25 PM 1/14/2004, Robbi McClane wrote:
>Question on BIN01 on the BIN segment..
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>If BIN02 contained 100 ASCII characters - would the value of BIN01 be
>100?
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Tom Brandt
Northtech Systems, Inc.
130 S. 1st Street, Suite 220
Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1343
http://www.northtech.com/
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