The End-of-Text character (ETX) is a control character used to inform the receiving computer that the end of a record has been reached. This may or may not be an indication that all of the data in a record have been received. In

ASCII ASCII ( ), abbreviated from American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard for electronic communication. ASCII codes represent text in computers, telecommunications equipment, and other devices. Because ...

and in EBCDIC, ETX is code point 0x03, often displayed as {{mono, ^C). It is often used as a "break" character (

Control-C Control+C is a common computer command. It is generated by pressing the key while holding down the key on most computer keyboards. In graphical user interface environments that use the control key to control the active program, control+C is o ...

) to interrupt a program or process. In TOPS-20, it was used to gain the system's attention before logging in. It is often used in conjunction with Start of Text (STX) and Data Link Escape (DLE), e.g., to distinguish frames in the

Data link layer The data link layer, or layer 2, is the second layer of the seven-layer OSI model of computer networking. This layer is the protocol layer that transfers data between nodes on a network segment across the physical layer. The data link layer p ...

. mIRC uses ETX as the color character escape character.

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