CARRIAGE_CONTROL_FILTER

The value of this variable affects how carriage control characters are treated when found in LINE SEQUENTIAL data files.

RM/COBOL version 2 handles carriage control characters in a line sequential file differently on different systems. By default, both ACUCOBOL-GT and RM/COBOL-85 remove carriage control characters from input records for line sequential files. This is the ANSI standard. RM/COBOL version 2, however, does not remove form-feed characters on MS-DOS machines and does not remove form-feed or carriage return characters on UNIX systems. Some existing RM/COBOL version 2 programs depend on this behavior.

You can retain any or all of these characters in the input record by setting CARRIAGE_CONTROL_FILTER to a value as follows:

1 form-feed characters are retained
2 carriage return characters are retained
4 line-feed characters are retained

You can specify two or three characters to be retained by adding the appropriate values together. For example, a value of 6 retains carriage returns and line feeds (2 plus 4). Setting the variable to 0 causes the default action of removing all three characters.

The default value is 0.