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Screen Handling Comparison Table
Table 8-1 provides a comparison between the screen handling methods.
Table 8-1. Comparison of Screen Handling Methods
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| |Operating System | | | | |
| Specific| | | | | |
| Windowing| | | | | |
| Compatible with | | | | |
| other COBOL | | | | |
| Dialects| Screen | | | | |
| Attributes | | | | |
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| ANSI ACCEPT/ | | | | |
| DISPLAY| no| no| | | | | |
| all| no | | | | |
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| Enhanced ACCEPT/ | | | | |
| DISPLAY| no| no1| | | | | |
| RM and MS 2.2| yes | | | | |
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| Screen Section| no| | X/Open RM and | | | |
| no1| DG | MS 2.2| yes | | | |
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| Windowing Syntax| | | | | |
| no| yes| no| no | | | | |
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| Low Level (COBOL)| | | | | |
| yes| no| Limited 2| | | | | |
| yes | | | | |
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| Low Level (GUI)| | | | | |
| yes| yes3| | | | | |
| Limited2| yes | | | | |
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| Panels| no4| yes| | | | | |
| no| yes | | | | |
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| Panels V2| no| | | | | |
| yes3| no| yes | | | | |
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| Dialog System | | | | |
| (graphical)| no| | | | | |
| yes3 | no| yes | | | | |
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| Dialog System | | | | |
| (character)| no| | | | | |
| yes| no| yes | | | | |
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Notes:
1. This is possible via a call to Adis to direct input and output via
Panels
2. Available in Microsoft COBOL 3.0 or later and other COBOL systems
produced by Micro Focus
3. Graphical user interface
4. Attributes are specific to the environment