Text, General Purpose (864/GENRAL)

The 864/GENRAL transaction set provides the capability to electronically move messages, contracts, explanations, and other one-time communications. The intent of this transaction set is to provide electronic communication messages for people, not for computer processing. The use of the transaction set to transmit quasi or unique transaction set standards is discouraged. The use of the Text Message transaction set demands of the sender certain detailed information about the recipient. The purpose of this transaction set is to provide communication to the recipient in some human-readable form. The recipient's network dictates what capabilities are available for delivery of the information. The sender must obtain this information and include it in the transmission.