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Use Abbreviations and Aliases for Control Words

When you are specifying control words and parameters in control statements, you can use shortened forms of the control word to conserve space on the line. Batch also allows aliases or alternate names for some of these control words.

For a list of the abbreviations and the aliases for control words, see the appendix Control Word Abbreviations.