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| | ASCII - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange, generally pronounced /"{ski/ (X-SAMPA)) is a character set and a character encoding based on the Roman alphabet as used in modern English and other Western European languages. |
 | | The first thirty-two codes (numbers 0-31 decimal) in ASCII are reserved for control characters: codes that were not originally intended to carry information, but rather to control devices (such as printers) that make use of ASCII. |
 | | Many of the ASCII control codes are to mark data packets, or to control a data transmission protocol (i.e., ENQuiry (effectively, "any stations out there?"), ACKnowledge, Negative AcKnowledge, Start Of Header, Start Of Text, End Of Text, etc). |
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