COBOL offers file handling capabilities for files of sequential, relative and indexed organization, using simple COBOL syntax. In addition, Micro Focus COBOL offers additional file handling features.
| File Handling Feature
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Use to...
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| Line sequential file organization
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Access ASCII text files from your COBOL program
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| A set of COBOL system library routines
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Manipulate files and directories
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| A set of COBOL system library routines
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Handle files at the byte level
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| Fileshare
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Access groups of files on network servers
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| A conversion module
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Read from and write to Btrieve files
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