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WRITE ADVANCING Special-Name

IBM DOS/VS COBOL allows the following form of the ADVANCING clause in a Format 1 WRITE statement:

     {BEFORE}  ADVANCING  {identifier-2 LINES}
     {AFTER }             {integer LINES     }
                          {special-name      }

The special-name option is the only one that is not also in ACUCOBOL-GT. The special-name is one of the following special names, or a "mnemonic" for it defined in the SPECIAL-NAMES paragraph:

Special Name
Equivalent
CSP
0 LINES
C01
PAGE
C02
none
C03
none
C12
none
S01
none
S02
none
S05
none

Only CSP and C01 are implemented in ACUCOBOL-GT in the IBM DOS/VS COBOL compatibility mode. The others depend on particular hardware features and cannot be ported. They will generate error messages.