Command Terminating Control Characters The Carriage Return character terminates a command, but first erases any characters at and to the right of the cursor. CTRL-V, on the other hand, skips the cursor to the right end of the line, then terminates it. The "Funny Return" character CTRL-F serves different purposes depending on what routine is soliciting the command. For more about CTRL-F, see "habt" and "hrpt". The general control character directory is "hcc".