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ANS85 Details (↑ Allowing Language Features)
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     This directive causes the following behavior changes:
 
     o  the I-O status values are those defined in ANSI'85.
 
     o  the ALPHABETIC class test regards lower case as alphabetic.
 
     o  control variables in PERFORM operations are initialized in
        the order specified by ANSI'85.
 
     o  MOVEs to a variable-length group item use the maximum length
        of the target if the DEPENDING ON item is within the group.
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