Microsoft KB Archive/21192

List of Available Run-Time Switches

PSS ID Number: Q21192 Article last modified on 11-16-1992

2.00 2.10 2.20 MS-DOS

Summary: The following is a list of the available general run-time switches available in Microsoft COBOL: 1. /P Causes the output file assigned to PRINTER to append to the file PRINT.SPL in the current drive and directory 2. /Sdrive:directory Provides a replacement search path for your object files (.INT files) /S switch will not search for program segments 3. /V Changes the Format 2 ACCEPT statement to treat numeric receiving fields as alphanumeric, in conformance with the 1974 COBOL ANSI standard 4. /C Only true for Version 2.10; Truncates trailing blanks from records in a Line Sequential file (Version 2.00 does this by default)

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