Re: New "base document" available


"Roger While" <simrw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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ARGUMENT-NAME/NUMBER are MF inventions.
Question remains.

It's ARGUMENT-NUMBER and ARGUMENT-VALUE
and these are the terms used in "X/Open CAE Specification
COBOL Language" (c) December 1991, X/Open Company
Limited. [This document is available in PDF from
< www.opengroup.org >; but requires registration.]

Page 166, "8.6 ACCESS TO COMMAND LINE
ARGUMENTS AND ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
Function
The following formats of the ACCEPT statement retrieve
the number of arguments on the command line and the value
of a command line argument or an environment variable.
The following formats of the DISPLAY statement specify
the position of an argument within the command line, the
name of an environment variable and store a value in the
specified environment variable."

[Four pages of text (formats, rules, and examples)
not reproduced here.]

Micro Focus appears to deviate from the specification
by allowing the names to be used, directly, in ACCEPT
and DISPLAY statements, rather than only in the
SPECIAL-NAMES paragraph.



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