COBOL Manual for TNS and TNS/R Programs

Program Compilation

HP COBOL Manual for TNS and TNS/R Programs—522555-006

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CONSULT and NOCONSULT

CONSULT

adds the files that object-name-list specifies to the tertiary search list. (See

Tertiary Search List.)

object-name-list

can be continued onto subsequent lines, but the left parenthesis must appear on

the same directive line as the keyword CONSULT. Each continuation line for a

CONSULT directive must have a question-mark (?) in the indicator area. If a

CONSULT directive spans multiple lines, they must be consecutive (no blank lines,

comment lines, or program text lines can intervene).

object-name

is the name of an object file. It can be either a file-system file name or (in the

Guardian environment) a DEFINE name. If the file-system file name is not fully

qualified with system, volume, and subvolume names, the compiler uses the

current default system, volume, and subvolume names to complete the

qualification. If object-name is in the OSS environment, it is an OSS

pathname.

For the NMCOBOL compiler, object-name must specify either:

•

A linkfile

•

An archive file

Note. The NMCOBOL compiler ignores and issues a warning for the NOCONSULT directive.

object-name-list

CONSULT

NOCONSULT

( )

VST273.vsd

object-name

VST274.vsd