End-of-Text character

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Not to be confused with End-of-Transmission-Block character.
For other end-of-text characters, see End mark (disambiguation).

The End-of-Text character (ETX) is a

data frames in the data link layer
. All this use is pretty much obsolete.

In both ASCII and EBCDIC, ETX is code point 0x03, often displayed as ^C, and a (ASCII) terminal can send it by typing Ctrl+C.

Control-C is often used to interrupt a program or process, a standard that started with Dec operating systems.[citation needed] In TOPS-20, it was used to gain the system's attention before logging in. mIRC uses ETX as the escape character to start a command to set the color.

See also

References

  1. doi:10.17487/RFC0020. STD 80. RFC 20
    . Retrieved February 7, 2024.
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