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MTN98: (3) Field 77E: Proprietary Message

FORMAT

Option E 73z
[n*78z]		 (Text1)
(Text2)

PRESENCE

Mandatory

DEFINITION

This field is used to convey the message contents in a format agreed to by the Sender and the Receiver.

USAGE RULES

In defining the format to be sent within field 77E, the following rules apply:

  • All characters and codes described in the Standards MT General Information are allowed.

  • The following exceptions are allowed:

    • Carriage return, line feed, colon 'CrLf:' may be used to separate fields included in field 77E, for example,

      :77E::20:ref1'CrLf'
      :21:ref2'CrLf'
      :79:test'CrLf'       etc.

    • Line 1 (that is, 73z) may consist of only carriage return, line feed, colon 'CrLf:', for example,

      :77E:'CrLf'
      :21:ref:'CrLf'       etc.

    • Line 1 may consist of blank characters, for example,

      :77E:eee'CrLf'

  • Carriage return, line feed, hyphen ('CrLf-') indicates the end of the text.

  • The maximum size of this field is limited to 9800 characters.

EXAMPLE

The following examples are invalid, and therefore will be NAKed:

  • The second or succeeding lines, that is, [n*78z], may not consist entirely of blank characters, for example,

    :77E::20:ref'CrLf'
    eee'CrLf'
    :79:test'CrLf:'     etc.

  • The second or succeeding lines may not consist of only Carriage return, line feed, for example,

    :77E::20:ref'CrLf'
    'CrLf'
    :79:test'CrLf:'     etc.