cobol2.hlp (Table of Contents; Topic list)
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     The possible values of integer are:
 
       0   System specific default (for this COBOL system, same as 3).
       1   C-ISAM format.
       2   Micro Focus Level II format.
       3   The format used by this COBOL system.
       4   An optimized form of the format used by this system, for fast
           duplicate key handling.
       5   Btrieve format (with ANSI conformance emulation).
       6   Btrieve format (without ANSI conformance emulation).
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