13.3.1.8. N-Step Submission To send your CIF file to MOSIS in fragments, use the NEW-PROJECT, SUBMIT or FABRICATE requests as described below: 1. Send MOSIS a NEW-PROJECT request to receive your Project-ID. 2. Divide your CIF file into N fragments so that each fragment is small enough to be handled in a single message. 3. Send N message fragments to MOSIS using the SUBMIT or the FABRICATE request and the CIF-FRAGMENT parameter described below. Each SUBMIT request should include the same parameters as in the standard procedure except that, instead of the parameter CIF, the parameter CIF-FRAGMENT should be used. The line with this parameter should look like this: "CIF-FRAGMENT: K/N", where N is the total number of fragments in the CIF project file and K is the number of the fragment. The CIF fragment should start on the line following the CIF-FRAGMENT parameter. MOSIS acknowledges the receipt of each fragment. When the full set has been received, MOSIS will append the fragments together and initiate CHECK_PROJ. You may use the DELETE-CIF request at any time to terminate the submission of CIF fragments. This is useful when sudden revisions to a project are necessary. Note that DELETE-CIF will delete ALL CIF for that project. An Important Note on Submitting CIF: Any submission of CIF is terminated either explicitly, by the next request (usually, "REQUEST: END"), or implicitly, when the end of the message is reached. The latter termination typically results in the message trailer (e.g., "------" of SNDMSG, a mailer) being appended to the end of the CIF file. This addition is not harmful after the CIF "E" command, which terminates the CIF file; however, such a trailer may be harmful at the end of CIF-FRAGMENTs, which may be in arbitrary positions in the middle of a CIF file. Therefore, all CIF submissions (especially when using CIF-FRAGMENT) should be explicitly terminated "REQUEST: END".