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authorPieter Hintjens <ph@imatix.com>2010-08-04 16:05:25 +0200
committerPieter Hintjens <ph@imatix.com>2010-08-04 16:05:25 +0200
commit13f3481e127a6b2390e847af6b01ee88f1b4ae61 (patch)
tree68a584ef6f3a9eed707df5bca7cbdb339c3c546e /doc/zmq_tcp.txt
parent6ff193999d96487f7aa7e578980ab5554e61d8dc (diff)
Further cleanups on reference manual
- fixed unwrapped text in new man pages - fixed over-long lines in older pages, where possible - removed reference to old standalong devices from index page - added refernce to new zmq_device[3] documented from index page - some minor spelling corrections
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diff --git a/doc/zmq_tcp.txt b/doc/zmq_tcp.txt
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@@ -31,7 +31,8 @@ colon and the TCP port number to use.
An 'interface' may be specified by either of the following:
* The interface name as defined by the operating system.
-* The primary IPv4 address assigned to the interface, in it's numeric representation.
+* The primary IPv4 address assigned to the interface, in its numeric
+ representation.
* The wildcard `*`, meaning that the interface address is unspecified.
NOTE: Interface names are not standardised in any way and should be assumed to
@@ -48,15 +49,15 @@ a colon and the TCP port number to use.
A 'peer address' may be specified by either of the following:
* The DNS name of the peer.
-* The IPv4 address of the peer, in it's numeric representation.
+* The IPv4 address of the peer, in its numeric representation.
WIRE FORMAT
-----------
0MQ messages are transmitted over TCP in frames consisting of an encoded
-'payload length', followed by a 'flags' field and the message body. The 'payload
-length' is defined as the combined length in octets of the message body and the
-'flags' field.
+'payload length', followed by a 'flags' field and the message body. The
+'payload length' is defined as the combined length in octets of the message
+body and the 'flags' field.
For frames with a 'payload length' not exceeding 254 octets, the 'payload
length' shall be encoded as a single octet. The minimum valid 'payload length'