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- Network Working Group J. Postel
- Request for Comments: 769 ISI
- 26 September 1980
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- Rapicom 450 Facsimile File Format
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- Introduction:
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- Several organizations in the ARPA Internet community have RAPICOM 450
- facsimile machines interfaced to computers. This allows these
- organizations to enter a facsimile representation of a page into a
- computer file, and to produce a page from stored facsimile data. These
- organizations can exchange stored facsimile data via file transfer and
- other protocols. The purpose of this note is to document the format
- used for these files so that other organizations with compatible
- facsimile devices can join in this information exchange procedure.
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- The Rapicom 450:
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- The Rapicom 450 has a built in encoding/decoding scheme. It produces
- data blocks of 585 bits. There are "set up" blocks and "data" blocks.
- The machine sends/receives several copies of the set up block, but since
- they are identical only one set up block is stored in the file.
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- Records:
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- Each 585 bit block is placed in a record of 8-bit bytes. The record
- format is a length byte, a command byte and the data bytes. Each record
- is an integral number of bytes. The length value includes the length
- byte and the command byte. The command describes the data in the data
- field.
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- 0 1 2 3 length
- +--------+--------+--------+--------+---//---+--------+--------+
- | length | command| data |
- +--------+--------+--------+--------+---//---+--------+--------+
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- Rapicom 450 Facsimile Record
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- Commands:
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- 56 - SET-UP
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- The command code 56 (70 octal) indicates the following data field is a
- set up block.
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- Rapicom 450 Facsimile File Format RFC 769
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- 57 - DATA
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- The command code 57 (71 octal) indicates the following data field is a
- data block.
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- 58 - END
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- The command code 58 (72 octal) indicates that this is the last record
- in the file. In this case the length may be 2, indicating that there
- is no data in this record.
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- Conventions:
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- In the files exchanged to date, each record contains one block. This
- means the data field is 74 bytes long (585/8=73.125), and the length
- field has the value 76 (114 octal), except the last record which may
- carry no data and have a length of 2.
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- The first record of a file is always a SET UP record, the following
- records are DATA records, until the last record which is an END record.
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- Details:
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- The 585 bit data block is encoded by the Rapicom 450 and so can not be
- used a bit map unless the encoding/decoding procedure is known and used.
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- The first 24 bits of the block is always a synchronization mark with the
- value 271 141 344 in octal or 101110010110000111100100 in binary.
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- The low order two bits of the next byte contain a sequence number
- (modulo 4). The sequence number bits cycle in the order 11, 01, 10, 00,
- starting with the first DATA record (not the SET UP record).
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- The line below represents a DATA record, where L represents a length
- bit, C represents a command bit, M represents the synchronization mark,
- S represents a sequence bit, F represents a fill bit, the dash
- represents 68 other data octets, and an D represents a data bit.
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- LLLLLLLLCCCCCCCCMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMDDDDDDSSDDDDDDDD-DFFFFFFF
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- In the line below the normal values have been filled in for the length,
- the command, the synchronization mark and fill bits.
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- 0100110000111001101110010110000111100100DDDDDDSSDDDDDDDD-D0000000
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