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HP COBOL II/XL Reference Manual

Obsolete Features 

Obsolete features are elements of the language that are now part of[REV
BEG] the 1985 ANSI COBOL standard,[REV END] but will be deleted from
the[REV BEG] full[REV END] standard after ANSI COBOL'85.  The ANSI85
entry point will continue to support these features.

The following items have been placed in the obsolete category:

   *   AUTHOR, DATE-WRITTEN, DATE-COMPILED, and SECURITY paragraphs in
       the IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.

   *   MEMORY-SIZE clause of the OBJECT-COMPUTER paragraph.

   *   RERUN clause of the I-O-CONTROL paragraph.

   *   LABEL RECORDS clause of the file description entry.

   *   VALUE OF clause of the file description entry.

   *   DATA RECORDS clause of the file description entry.

   *   ALTER statement.

   *   ENTER statement.

   *   REVERSED phrase of the OPEN statement.

   *   STOP literal statement.

   *   Segmentation module.

   *   Debug module.



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