Xerox Paris, a document system Support & Software User Guide

When Skip is selected, the value (Val) to the right specifies to which
Channel to skip.

A Channel is a short-hand method of specifying actual line numbers
which are relative to text blocks. That is, each text block in a page
definition will contain a ‘Line 1’.

Motion is always downwards within a text block. It is not possible to
‘Skip’ back up the text block.

For example:

If  the print position is currently on the 5

th

 line of  a text block and

a PCC byte with a ‘Skip’ to Line 2 is encountered, the current
print position will ‘Skip’ to Line 2 in the 

next text block.

If there are no more text blocks on the page the current position
will ‘Skip’ to Line 2 of the 1

st

 text block on the next page.

A channel can contain one or more line numbers and can be modified
using the ‘Channel Assigns’ function in the dialogue.

The ‘Skip’ instructions of a PCC byte define the Channel number only.
The line number is defined in the ‘Channel Assigns’ table. Refer to the
section ‘Defining the channel number to ‘skip’ to for the PCC byte

that follows.

Channel 1 is normally assigned to  Line 1. In this case a line containing
a ‘1’ in the PCC byte will normally force that line to ‘Skip’ to the next
Line 1, which is normally on the next page (in other words a form feed).