1. "At the beginning of a cycle, specs synchronises the input ¡ streams it uses; that is, it peeks at all input streams it uses before ¡ issuing any specification items."
2. "This ensures that a record is available on ¡ all streams at the beginning of the cycle." 3. "¡ Streams ¡ The primary input stream is selected at the beginning of the cycle unless a ¡ SELECT item precedes the first item that refers to an input range." 4. "¡ ¡ >>SPECs ItemGroup >< ¡ MainOptions ¡ Main Options ¡ Two keywords that control the overall behaviour of specs can be specified at ¡ the beginning of the argument string." 5. "¡ SELECT 0 is implied at the beginning of the cycle unless some ¡ other SELECT item precedes the first data field."
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