If a string write gets to the end of the line and is not complete, the string write continues at the beginning of the next line. If the write gets to the end of the screen, the screen is scrolled, and the write continues until completed.

The character's carriage return, line feed, backspace, tab, and bell are treated as commands rather than printable characters. Backspace is a nondestructive backspace. Tabs are expanded to provide standard 8-byte-wide fields. VioWrtTTY is the only video function affected by ANSI.

Characters are written using the current attribute defined by ANSI or the default value of 7.