fox message

noun

Etymology

In reference to the pangram "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog", often used for this purpose.

Definitions

  1. A message sent to test a teletype machine, incorporating most or all of the available…

    A message sent to test a teletype machine, incorporating most or all of the available text characters.

    • The punched paper tapes containing the standard Fox messages are passed through an IBM 047 Tape-to-Card Printing Punch which has been modified to recognize and punch every pertinent teletype symbol, […]
    • Output Test Patterns: (1) Standard FOX message with 5-letter programmable in the field for station call letters.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fox message. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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