>I guess the standard I am referring to is the ANSI ASC X12
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>In 1979, the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) chartered the Accredited Standards Committee (ASC) X12 to develop uniform standards for interindustry electronic interchange of business transactions-- electronic data interchange (EDI).
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>ASC X12 develops, maintains, interprets, publishes and promotes the proper use of American National and UN/EDIFACT International Electronic Data Interchange Standards.
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>I understand that there are a variety of off the shelf software packages which helps to implement some of this, but the interface to individual applications must be programmed. Has anybody used any of these packages and/or tried to interface to them?
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>Thanks again.

Sorry, I'm not writing with any help but I'd sure be interested in how it works out for you since, I hope to also (someday) try to set EDI up in my application. If you have the time, I'd like to know how it went for you.(recommendation&resources)
Thanks
Allen

PS: I'm not sure how much help it will be, but I remember Microsoft having white papers on their web sight about EDI within their Activestore concept. Check it out with a search in microsoft's website under activestore, or EDI for that matter.