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

P- 4
extends to the reproduction and use of COBOL specifications in
programming manuals or similar publications.
FLOW-MATIC (trademark of Sperry Rand Corporation), Programming for
the Univac(R) I and II, Data Automation Systems copyrighted 1958,
1959, by Sperry Rand Corporation; IBM Commercial Translator Form No.
F 28-8013, copyrighted 1959 by IBM, FACT, DSI 27A5260-2760,
copyrighted 1960 by Minneapolis-Honeywell.
Conventions
Notation Description
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have been made to this manual since the last
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UPPERCASE and Within syntax statements, characters in uppercase must
UNDERLINING be entered in exactly the order shown. Uppercase words
that are underlined are keywords that are always
required when the clause or statement in which they
appear is used in your program. Uppercase words that
are
not underlined are optional, and may be included or
omitted. They have no effect on program execution and
serve only to make source program listings more
readable. The following example illustrates this:
[FILE
STATUS IS stat-item ].
STATUS must be entered, FILE may be either included or
omitted. See also "Underlining in dialog" on the
following page.
italics Within syntax statements, a word in italics represents a
formal parameter, argument, or literal that you must
replace with an actual value. In the following example,
you must replace
filename with the name of the file you
want to release:
RELEASE filename
punctuation Within syntax statements, punctuation characters (other
than brackets, braces, vertical parallel lines, and
ellipses) must be entered exactly as shown.
{ } Within syntax statements, when several elements within
braces are stacked, you must select one. In the
following equivalent examples, you select ON or OFF:
{ON }
SETMSG {OFF}
SETMSG {ON }