fox message

English

Etymology

In reference to the pangram "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog", often used for this purpose.

Noun

fox message (plural fox messages)

  1. A message sent to test a teletype machine, incorporating most or all of the available text characters.
    • 1964, IEEE International Convention Record:
      The punched paper tapes containing the standard Fox messages are passed through an IBM 047 Tape-to-Card Printing Punch which has been modified to recognize and punch every pertinent teletype symbol, […]
    • 1970, United States. Dept. of Defense, Military Standard (issues 1362-1381, page 263)
      Output Test Patterns: (1) Standard FOX message with 5-letter programmable in the field for station call letters.
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