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Within CL the information from the records is held in data locations. A data location is referred to by preceding it with a dollar sign. The range of valid data locations for character data is $1 to $350000 inclusive. If only 2000 locations are allocated on the CARD CHARACTERS command then the largest acceptable location number is $2000.

The way data is stored in the data file will depend on whether the file name extension is .uni, see Character data for more information.

To allocate 4500 data locations numbered $1 to $4500:

CARD CHARACTERS 4500,