COBOL Manual for TNS/E Programs (H06.03+)

Using HP COBOL in the OSS Environment
HP COBOL Manual for TNS/E Programs—520347-003
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OPEN Statement
units
condition
are handled as comments.
SAME AREA clause
specifies the files that share the same memory during program execution. These
files do not share disk space or tape space.
The SAME AREA clause has different meanings for I-O files (sequential, relative,
indexed) than for sort-merge files.
same-file
is a file name.
OPEN Statement
The OPEN statement has this file-specification:
INPUT
specifies that the file or files in input-file-description are being opened for
reading only.
AREA
RECORD
FOR
SAME
same-file
MERGE
SORT
VST060.vsd
INPUT input-file-description
OUTPUT output-file-description
I-O i-o-file-description
EXTEND extend-file-description
VST187.vsd