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3.7.3.2 Message Body
The message body is made up of individual commands and fields.
Certain conventions are used to improve the readability of the commands presented in
this document. These conventions do not appear in the commands themselves.
Conventions used in the command names and descriptions include the following
characters.
[...] Square brackets are used to indicate that the enclosed items are optional. (The
square brackets themselves do not appear in the message.)
<...>
Angle brackets are used to enclose the names of other syntactical elements.
(When those elements appear in an actual message, the actual element is used
and the angle brackets are omitted.)
‘...’
Single quotes are used to enclose an ASCII character for illustration of syntax
elements. (The single quotes themselves do not appear in the message.)
3.7.3.3 End Character
The end character for both command and response messages is a carriage return
(represented by “cr”).
3.7.3.4 Case Sensitivity
Messages are not case sensitive. However, the DCE generates responses and results in
uppercase text.
3.7.3.5 Delimiters
Commas and semicolons are valid delimiters that may be used interchangeably with no
difference in behavior.
3.7.3.6 End Character
Each message is ended with a single character which signals the end of the message:
“]” End bracket for responses.