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DG Interactive COBOL Source Programs Your COBOL system includes certain language enhancements that allow you to submit programs written in DG Interactive COBOL directly to this COBOL system. Provided your DG Interactive COBOL source programs conform to the standard file format for your operating system, there should be no problems in submitting most programs to this COBOL system. You should ensure that the expansion of tab characters in literals is not significant to the operation of your program before it is processed by this COBOL system. However, if your program is written in DG CRT format, you must reformat the source file before you submit it to your COBOL system. A source reformatting utility, reform5, is provided, and Chapter 14 and Chapter 15 describe how you use it. You must set the DG directive when you submit your source code to this COBOL system if your source code contains DG Interactive COBOL features that are not supported in the standard VS COBOL language, or if user-defined words are reserved words in the VS COBOL language. Refer to the Language Reference supplied with your version of the COBOL system for a list of VS COBOL reserved words, and a full definition of all the syntax supported within the standard VS COBOL language. This manual also contains a full list of the additional DG Interactive COBOL features enabled within the VS COBOL language when you set the DG system directive. Your COBOL System Reference contains details of how to set this directive.