format effector (FE)
The format control characters, Format Effector (FE), determine the arrangement of the data on the data carrier or the input and output at devices, and thus also the structure of the data. This is especially true for character-by-character printing devices.
Alphabet The six format control characters, labeled FE0 through FE5, include the backspace ( BS), horizontal tab ( HT), line feed ( LF), vertical tab ( VT), form feed ( FF), and carriage return ( CR).