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Ch 6. ENVIRONMENT DIVISION [ HP COBOL II/XL Reference Manual ] MPE/iX 5.0 Documentation


HP COBOL II/XL Reference Manual

Chapter 6  ENVIRONMENT DIVISION 

The ENVIRONMENT DIVISION allows you to define those aspects of a data
processing application that depend on the physical characteristics of the
processing environment.    The ENVIRONMENT DIVISION is optional.  It
always follows the IDENTIFICATION DIVISION. 

This division consists of two sections:

   *   CONFIGURATION SECTION, for specifying the hardware characteristics
       of the system on which you will compile and run your program.

   *   INPUT-OUTPUT SECTION, for specifying the data files used by your
       program, and various input-output control elements.

Each of these sections may contain several paragraphs.



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