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RFC 13 - Zero Text Length EOF Message

  • Status: Unknown
  • Published: August 1969
  • Stream: Legacy
  • Errata: No Errata

Document Information​

  • RFC Number: 13
  • Title: Zero Text Length EOF Message
  • Authors: Vint Cerf
  • Date: August 1969
  • Category: Unknown

Abstract​

RFC 13 proposes a mechanism for marking the end of a file transmitted over an auxiliary connection. Noting that such transmissions will require some way to specify "END-OF-FILE", Vint Cerf proposes that a message of length 0 (zero) be used for that purpose. Figure 1 shows the format of this zero text length EOF message, whose fields are a 32-bit leader, a 32-bit marking, a 16-bit checksum, and a padding field of unspecified length.

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