ANSI carriage control characters
The most universal carriage control is ANSI, which consists of a single character that is a prefix for the print line. The standard ANSI characters are:
| ANSI | Action |
|---|---|
| space | Single space the line and print |
| 0 | Double space the line and print |
| - | Triple space the line and print |
| + | Do not space the line and print |
| 1 | Skip to channel 1 (the top of the form, by convention) |
| 2-9 | Skip to a hardware-defined position on the page |
| A,B,C | Defined by a vertical tab record or forms control buffer (FCB) |