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Program Source Conventions The Micro Focus COBOL compiler accepts source from a standard UNIX text file (as created by a UNIX editor such as vi). The format of this is the same as for standard COBOL. The standard format is described in the Language Reference. Each line of your COBOL source programs, including the last line, must be terminated by a new line character. Your COBOL source programs must not contain any control characters (characters with hexadecimal values x"00" to x"1F" inclusive, or x"7F") except the tab character, unless they are embedded in literal strings. Tab is expanded with spaces to the next character position that is a multiple of eight.