COBOL Manual for TNS and TNS/R Programs

Environment Division
HP COBOL Manual for TNS and TNS/R Programs—522555-006
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FILE-CONTROL Paragraph
ASSIGN clause
associates file-name with system-file-name. Only the first system-file-
name has meaning. The compiler ignores subsequent names and issues a
warning.
system-file-name
is the name of a code-180 file that the file system recognizes or one of the
special operating system file names described in System-Names. If system-
file-name does not begin with a dollar sign ($), backward slash (\), or
number sign (#), then it must be enclosed in quotation marks unless it forms a
COBOL word. For more information about Guardian file names, see the
Guardian Procedure Calls Reference Manual. For more information about OSS
file names, see the filename(5) reference page either online or in the Open
System Services System Calls Reference Manual.
RESERVE clause
is ignored.
ORGANIZATION clause
makes the organization of the file line sequential.
ACCESS MODE clause
makes the access mode of the file sequential (the default).
ASSIGN
TO
system-file-name
VST640.vsd
SEQUENTIAL
LINE
IS
ORGANIZATION
VST625.vsd
ACCESS
IS
SEQUENTIAL
MODE
VST044.vsd