HP COBOL II/XL Quick Reference Guide (31500-90015)

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First Edition November 1987 31500A.00.12
Second Edition October 1988 31500A.01.06
Third Edition July 1991 31500A.04.03
Preface
This is a quick reference guide for the HP COBOL II programming language
on the MPE XL operating system. HP COBOL II is based on the ANSI
COBOL'1974 and ANSI COBOL'1985 Standard X3.23-1985.
This guide is intended for programmers who have a working knowledge of
COBOL. It summarizes HP COBOL II language elements and gives the
syntax[REV BEG] for statements, commands, compiler directives, and COBOL
functions.This manual is organized as follows:
Chapter 1 Preprocessor Commands and $CONTROL Options
Chapter 2 Program Format
Chapter 3 IDENTIFICATION DIVISION Statements
Chapter 4 ENVIRONMENT DIVISION Statements
Chapter 5 DATA DIVISION Statements
Chapter 6 PROCEDURE DIVISION Statements
Chapter 7 COBOL Reserved Word List
Appendix A HP COBOL II/XL Compiler Commands
Appendix B HP COBOL II/V Compiler Commands
Appendix C MPE XL Run-Time Trap Handling
Appendix D COBEDIT Program
Appendix E COBOL Functions