Tn (Tab to Position n) On input, starts the next read operation at the character position (within the record) indicated by position n. For example, if an input statement reads a record containing: ABC XYZ and this record is under the control of the FORMAT statement: 10 FORMAT (T7,A3,T1,A3) On execution, the input statement would first read the characters XYZ and then read the characters ABC. On output, starts the next write operation at the character position n in the external record. The position specified must be an integer in the range 1 through the size of the record.