carriage return

n : the operation that prepares for the next character to be

printed or displayed as the first character on a line

Carriage Return

(CR, Control-M, {ASCII} 13) The character which

causes the {cursor} to move to the left margin, often used

with {line feed} to start a new line of output.

Encoded in {C} and {Unix} as "\r".

(1996-06-24)