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<reference anchor='RFC2088'>

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<title abbrev='LITERAL'>IMAP4 non-synchronizing literals</title>
<author initials='J.G.' surname='Myers' fullname='John G. Myers'>
<organization>Carnegie-Mellon University</organization>
<address>
<postal>
<street>5000 Forbes Ave.</street>
<city>Pittsburgh</city>
<region>PA</region>
<code>15213-3890</code>
<country>US</country></postal>
<email>jgm+@cmu.edu</email></address></author>
<date month='January' year='1997' />
<abstract>
<t>The Internet Message Access Protocolcontains the "literal" syntactic construct for communicating strings.  When sending a literal from client to server, IMAP4 requires the client to wait for the server to send a command continuation request between sending the octet count and the string data.  This document specifies an alternate form of literal which does not require this network round trip.</t></abstract></front>

<seriesInfo name='RFC' value='2088' />
</reference>
