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  Verb:         START
 
  Function:     Positions a relative or indexed file for subsequent
                retrieval of records.
 
  Syntax:       Which format?  Relative   Indexed
 
  ──START file-name─
 
  ┬───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────1
   └─KEY─┬──┬─┬─EQUAL─┬──┬───────────────────┬─┬─data-name-1───────┬───2
         └IS┘ │       └TO┘                   │ └─split-key-name-1──┘
              ├─ = ──────────────────────────┤
              ├─GREATER─┬────┬───────────────┤
              │         └THAN┘               │
              ├─ > ──────────────────────────┤
              ├─NOT LESS─┬────┬──────────────┤
              │          └THAN┘              │
              ├─ NOT < ──────────────────────┤
              ├─GREATER─┬────┬─OR EQUAL─┬──┬─┤
              │         └THAN┘          └TO┘ │
              ├─ >= ─────────────────────────┤
              ├─LESS─┬────┬──────────────────┤
              │      └THAN┘                  │
              ├─ < ──────────────────────────┤
              ├─NOT GREATER─┬────┬───────────┤
              │             └THAN┘           │
              ├─NOT > ───────────────────────┤
              ├─LESS─┬────┬─OR EQUAL┬──┬─────┤
              │      └THAN┘         └TO┘     │
              └─ <= ─────────────────────────┘
 
 1────────────────────────────────┬────────────────
 2───┬───────────────────────────┬┘
      └─WITH SIZE─┬─identifier-1─┬┘
                  └─literal-1────┘
 
  ─┬──────────────────────────────────────┬────────
    └─INVALID─┬───┬─imperative-statement-1─┘
              └KEY┘
 
  ─┬──────────────────────────────────────────┬────
    └─NOT INVALID─┬───┬─imperative-statement-2─┘
                  └KEY┘
 
  ─┬───────────┬──
    └─END-START─┘
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