HP 3000 Manuals

COBOL/HP-UX Language Reference for the Series 700 and 800

DISPLAY Statement with Conditional Compilation 

General Format 

     $DISPLAY text-data

General Rules 

   1.  The whole statement must appear on a single line.

   2.  If a $DISPLAY statement is encountered while source lines are
       actively being processed (not in source lines which are
       conditionally excluded), the text-data will be displayed on the
       standard output device.

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