Text streams
Text streams contain printable characters and, depending on the
type of file, control characters. Text streams are organized into
lines. Each line ends with a control character, usually a new-line.
The last record in a text file may or may not end with a control character,
depending on what kind of file you are using. Text files recognize
the following control characters:
- \a
- Alarm.
- \b
- Backspace.
- \f
- Form feed.
- \n
- New-line.
- \r
- Carriage return.
- \t
- Horizontal tab character.
- \v
- Vertical tab character.
- \x0E
- DBCS shift-out character. Indicates the beginning of a DBCS string, if MB_CUR_MAX>1 in the definition of the locale that is in effect. For more information about __MBCURMAX, see z/OS XL C Support for the double-byte character set.
- \x0F
- DBCS shift-in character. Indicates the end of a DBCS string, if MB_CUR_MAX>1 in the definition of the locale that is in effect. For more information about __MBCURMAX, see z/OS XL C Support for the double-byte character set.