About 7 or 8 years ago I wrote an EDI parser in FoxPro DOS. It worked pretty well all things considered, and you could go that route, although there are probably some third-party tools you could look at too. I might (no guarantees) even have some source code of my own lying around...

However, I believe that EDI is going to be supplanted by XML soon, whenever the various industries start agreeing on standards, so you might want to look at that too.

>One alternative to look at is www.getradeweb.com
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>I am investigating their web based service offering with the intent of using IE automation for EDI transactions.
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>If nothing else, they have a great primer on EDI on their site.
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>>Has anybody gone through the exercise of interfacing their VFP application to EDI (Electronic Data Interchange standard)?
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>>I have a customer who needs EDI and is running an existing VFP application to run their business. What EDI software is the best? What VFP issues do I need to know to interface to such software?
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>>Thanks in advance to anyone who has had experiences to relate.