AT&T 610 - Communications

Received Characters
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Control Characters
User's Guide
August 1985
Backspace (BS)
Receiving the backspace character (Hex 08) causes a cursor-
left function. Receiving continuous backspace characters will
cause continuous cursor-left functions until the cursor is in
the first character position of the current line.
Bell (Bel)
Receiving bell characters (Hex 07) causes the keyboard tone
generator to sound.
Cancel (Can)
Receiving the cancel character (Hex 18) causes escape
sequence parsing to be terminated. The character will also be
displayed.
Carriage Return (CR)
Receiving the carriage return character (Hex OD) causes the
cursor to return to the first character. position of the current
line.
DC2
Receiving the DC2 character (Hex 12) turns on PRINT ON-LINE
(refer to Section 6).
DC4
Receiving the DC4 character (Hex 14) turns PRINT ON-LINE
off (refer to Section 6).
Escape (ESC)
Receiving the Escape character (Hex IB) begins a control
sequence. The characters that follow the Escape character cause
a special function to be performed.
Formfeed (FF)
Receiving the Formfeed character (Hex OC) will cause
destructive scrolling if the cursor is currently located on the
last line of the scrolling region.