Carriage Control Characters (CC)

Carriage control characters, which control line skipping, line spacing, and page ejection on line printers, are fields within line-data and unformatted-ASCII records. They are compatible with page printers when page definitions format the printed data. In page definitions, you can specify CHANNEL subcommands that correspond to carriage control characters corresponding to channels 1 through 12 in the data. When you do so, the carriage control characters operate just as they do in a line-printer environment.

Note: ASCII ANSI, ANSI, and EBCDIC (machine) handle carriage control characters differently. See the SPACE_THEN_PRINT subcommand listed in Subcommands (Long Form) for more information.
Parent topic: Basic Controls in Traditional Line Data