Re: BISYNC vs ASYNCH programming

[lgoodbar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Loyd Goodbar)]

Depending on your industry, bisynch is going away rather quickly. I work for
an automotive supplier, and several companies are discontinuing bisynch
support as an EDI option. It gets even hairier as more companies move to VANs
and Internet-required connectivity. If you have a choice, a third party
package that supports multiple protocols may be your best bet. (We use
Gentran, which offers bisynch, asynch, and FTP support and scripting, among
others.)

Loyd

On Fri, 12 May 2000 16:03:33 -0700, Eric Kempter
<noerick.norcal@cleancity.com> wrote:

>Is there a great deal of difference in the programming of Bisynchronous 
>communications vs Asynchronous communications.  We purchased an EDI package 
>that uses Bisynch comms.  We asked the vendor for a quote on how much it 
>would cost to modify his package to support asynch comms.  He said it would 
>take him weeks to come up with a quote and then it would probably take 
>months to program.  Does this sound realistic.  TIA
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