End-of-Transmission-Block (ETB) is a communications
control character used to indicate the end of a block of data for communications purposes. ETB is used for segmenting data into blocks when the block structure is not necessarily related to the processing function.
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 of ...
, ETB is code point 23 (0x17, or in
caret notation) in the
C0 control code set. In
EBCDIC, ETB is code point 0x26.
References
*Nichols A., Nichols et al.: ''Data Communications for Microcomputers'' (1982)
ASCII
Control characters
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