In telecommunication, a message format is a predetermined or prescribed spatial or time-sequential arrangement of the parts of a message that is recorded in or on a data storage medium.
At one time, messages prepared for electrical transmission were composed on a printed blank form with spaces for each part of the message and for administrative entries.
This article incorporates public domain material from the General Services Administration document "Federal Standard 1037C".
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