carriage control character
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Control character — In computing and telecommunication, a control character or non printing character is a code point (a number) in a character set, that does not in itself represent a written symbol. It is in band signaling in the context of character encoding. All … Wikipedia
control character — A nonprinting character with a special meaning. Control characters, such as Carriage Return, Line Feed, Bell, or Escape, perform a specific operation on a terminal, printer, or communications line. They are grouped together as the first 32… … Dictionary of networking
control character — noun ASCII characters to indicate carriage return or tab or backspace; typed by depressing a key and the control key at the same time • Syn: ↑ASCII control character • Hypernyms: ↑ASCII character • Hyponyms: ↑backspace character … Useful english dictionary
ASCII control character — noun ASCII characters to indicate carriage return or tab or backspace; typed by depressing a key and the control key at the same time • Syn: ↑control character • Hypernyms: ↑ASCII character • Hyponyms: ↑backspace character … Useful english dictionary
control character — noun A character which does not have a direct visual appearance as a glyph, but rather causes some other display action to occur, such as a transition to a new line. Examples are tab, carriage return, and line feed … Wiktionary
Carriage return — Carriage return, often shortened to return, refers to a control character or mechanism used to start a new line of text. Originally, the term carriage return referred to a mechanism or lever on a typewriter. It was used after typing a line of… … Wikipedia
carriage return — A control character (ASCII 13) that signals the print head or display cursor to return to the first position of the current line. See also line feed … Dictionary of networking
Control-M — may refer to: An alternative way to do a carriage return in the ASCII character set A scheduling computer software, see BMC Control M Panasonic Professional/Industrial video 5 pin mini DIN editing Control M protocol This disambiguation page lists … Wikipedia
ASA character — noun A standard carriage control character added to the start of each line of text to be printed on a line printer … Wiktionary
Character (computing) — In computer and machine based telecommunications terminology, a character is a unit of information that roughly corresponds to a grapheme, grapheme like unit, or symbol, such as in an alphabet or syllabary in the written form of a natural… … Wikipedia
