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Columns 40-80 Comments Columns 40-80 are reserved for your comments. These comments will be printed along with your specifications if you instructed XSORT to do so. (Column 27 of your Header line must either be blank or contain a zero.) Some programmers find it convenient to write the names of records described in the Record Type Specifications here, so an area has been set aside in the comment section for that purpose. Constants longer than 20 characters or digits will extend past column 40 into the comment area. They will be used correctly and not truncated at column 40. (See the discussion of factor 2 constants, columns 20-80.) Your comments do not influence the operation of your program in any way.