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Re: sigh... really, i'm not dead.



In the Terms and Concepts section, a message is defined a a single
line of text.

 Messages: The basic unit of MCP communication, messages are single
 lines of printable ASCII terminated by a network newline. The MCP
 protocol does not impose a message-length restriction, and the
 definition of "network-newline" depends on the network over which MCP
 is carried, and is not specified here.

In the Message Format section begins with the following.

 All MCP messages begin with the literal string #$#.

 An MCP message consists of three basic parts: the name of the message,
 the authentication key, and a set of keyword-value pairs.

This is inconsistent with the definition of a message, because some
messages can begin with #$#*.  It seems that the Terms and Concepts
section should name the concept of a request unit, that is, the
message containing the message name along with any other messages that
contribute to the request unit in the form of multiline values.
Alternatively, one could define a message to be the combination of the
name of the message, the authentication key, and a set of
keyword-value pairs, and define a message element as a line of text
that begins with the string #$#, which is used to build complete
messages.

John