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Notes:
The READ statement retrieves data from a file.
The qualifiers shown provide for labels to receive control in case of error or at end of file, and provide ways to specify a key to match, which index to search, how to match the key value specified (RMS indexed files), a prompt string to use when READing from a terminal, and a TIME_OUT value for a time to wait for input from a terminal.