Funny. Shortly after I asked for assistance, I became aware of this example.
 
 
This makes me wonder; is there a concise list of all intrinsics by
alphabetical order with a short description somewhere?
 
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>From: KEN_ROBERTSON
>To: lopezrod; Multiple recipients of list HP3000-L
>Subject: PAUSEing from COBOL
>Date: Fri, Jan 13, 1995 5:09PM
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>As a follow-up to calling PAUSE from COBOL, the reference manual
>"HP COBOL II/XL Programmers Guide" has an example of calling PAUSE.
>Under the heading "Calling Intrinsics", there is
>a sub-heading called "Passing Real Numbers To Intrinsics".
>
>The manual suggests that HPEXTIN be called to convert the number
>to Real.
>
>This manual is available on CD-ROM - specifically the MPE/iX 4.0 CD-ROM
>Manual Set.
>
>\KenR
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