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  3. August 2002

RE: More newbieness

Exit Program is ignored if it occurs in the root program in the COBOL run
unit.  The code will in fact drop through the statement and (in the case of
your earlier code) will hit the implicit STOP RUN which is effectively at
the end of each COBOL source.

If you replace it with a GO BACK - you will get either a STOP RUN or an EXIT
PROGRAM depending on whether you are the root of the run unit or not.

Run unit creation is expensive (and its destruction has other implications)
so rather than simply add a GO BACK you need to understand what the original
code is trying to do.

Jon Paris
Partner400

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