2.1.1 Standard Options

-a Causes all warning messages to be displayed. This will include messages about COBOL constructs declared "obsolete" by the ANSI standard and certain COBOL constructs that may be machine-dependent. Normally, these messages are not displayed.

-e This option must be followed by a file name (as the next separate argument). When specified, this option causes the error listing to be written to the specified file instead of the screen. This file is removed if no errors are found.

-o This option must be followed by a file name (as the next separate argument) which becomes the name of the object file instead of "source-name.acu". This file is removed if the compiler detects errors in the source.

-v This option has multiple applications:

If it is the first and only option on the command line, then it means the "Version" mode (See 2.1.15, Help, Version Information, and Communication With C Programs, below). You can get the copyright notice and version information with this command.
Otherwise, it causes the compiler to be verbose about its progress.

Note that since "-v" is the lead-in sequence for the video options (see 2.1.8, Video Options, below), this option should be specified by itself.

-w Causes warning messages to be suppressed. A warning message is never fatal to the compiler. This is useful for converting programs from some other compilers that have slightly different syntaxes.

-x This causes the CBLFLAGS environment variable to be ignored. This is described in detail in section 2.1.14.

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2.1.1.1 Native Code Options