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.