... 1.25¹

copyright - see appendix A

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...GUI^1.1

However, starting with version 1.25, a GUI front-end has been developed. See chapter for more details.

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...platformplatforms^1.2

with the exception of binary and packed data.

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...capitalizecapitalized.^2.1

According to IBM's COBOL Language Reference (IGYLR204), paragraph 1.1.1.1 COBOL Words with Single-Byte Characters : ''Each lowercase letter is considered to be equivalent to its corresponding uppercase letter, except in non numeric literals''

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...DISPLAY-1DISPLAY-1^2.2

DBCS items are not supported

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...^2.3

Those levels generate only a warning message and conversion continues.

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... necessary^2.4

& < > `` and ' need to be converted to &amp; &lt; &gt; &quot; &apos; respectively.

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... SIZE="-1">^2.5

COBOL for MVS & VM V1R2.2 Language Reference (IGYLR204) paragraph 5.3.11 PICTURE Clause : ``The PICTURE clause can be specified only at the elementary level.''

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...escapeescaped.^2.6

&amp; &lt; &gt; &quot; &apos; are converted to & < > `` and ' respectively or content is extracted from CDATA section starting with <![CDATA[ and ending with ]]>

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... list^8.1

according to IBM's "Enterprise COBOL for z/OS V3R3 Language Reference "(IGY3LR20)

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...contentcontent^8.2

Content is escaped if necessary. Characters like & < > `` and ' are converted to &amp; &lt; &gt; &quot; &apos; respectively.

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... SIZE="-1">^8.3

COBOL for MVS & VM V1R2.2 Language Reference (IGYLR204) paragraph 5.3.11 PICTURE Clause : ``The PICTURE clause can be specified only at the elementary level.''

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... generator^C.1

The cover page was made with Typo generator.

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... Processor^C.2

This document was written with Lyx.

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... World^C.3

Most of glossary definitions come from this site.

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