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Appendix E Microsoft COBOL V1.0 and V2.0 Syntax Support Introduction This appendix lists Microsoft syntax which is accepted by your COBOL system purely for compatibility with IBM 1.0 syntax and MICROSOFT V2.0 syntax. Many features found in Microsoft COBOL exist already in COBOL. These are documented in the main body of this manual. Some of the compatibility syntax listed in this appendix is identical to standard COBOL syntax, but behaves differently if you set the MS system directive when you submit your source code to your COBOL system. Other Microsoft syntax is available only if this directive is set. See your COBOL System Reference for details of the MS directive, and the IBM COBOL 1.0 manual and MICROSOFT COBOL V2.0 manual for further information on the Microsoft syntax. This manual covers IBM COBOL V1.0; where syntax is a MICROSOFT V2.0 extension it is explicitly indicated.