What's New

New for Comet 2005 Added documentation for:
(Document)

Updated documentation for:
CREATE
FSTAT
LUNs
(SpoolMessage)

New for Comet 2004 Added documentation for:
(AutoCROn)
(AutoCROff)
Log
MsgBox statement
MsgBox function
Not
Pad
SetBit
TestBit

Updated documentation for:
Compiler Options
Logical Operators
NUM2DATE

January 14, 2003 Updated documentation for:
DSTAT of a printer
RUNSTATE
December 9, 2002 Added documentation for:
(LoadControl)
(StoreControl)
November 4, 2002 Updated documentation for:
PAUSE
NUM2DATE
October 14, 2002 Updated documentation for:
FSTAT
October 9, 2002 Added documentation for:
(Get Session ID)
(Redraw Notify)
(Set Window Caption)
(Shell Execute Wait)

Updated documentation for:
AGAIN
(Hyperlink)
PSTAT
(Shell Execute)
Video mnemonics

June 26, 2002 Added documentation for:
AUTOINPUT
DECIHEX
IHEXDEC
June 13, 2002 Added documentation for:
EventWait
June 7, 2002 Added documentation for Comet hyperlinks, including:
(HyperLink)
(HyperLinkColor)
(SatisfyInput)
EVENTSUB

Updated documentation for:
STS

May 16, 2002 Updated the documentation for:
DATE2NUM
May 8, 2002 Added documentation for extended windows, including:
(CreateWindowEx)
(SelectWindowEx)
(DeleteWindowEx)

Updated the documentation for:
STS
(EasyScan)

April 30, 2002 Added documentation for the Winsock gateway, including:
Overview
Winsock gateway subroutine
CLOSE control
CONNECT control
CRLF control
DISCONNECT control
GETERROR control
LISTEN control
OPEN control
QUIT control
TIMEOUT control
WEOL control
Winsock error codes
STS function
Sending e-mail via SMTP
Background information
Gateway commands
SMTP commands
E-mail headers, text, etc.
Demo programs
Sample 1
Sample 2
Sample 3
Sample 4
Sample 5
Sample 6
Sample 7
Retrieving web pages via HTTP

Added documentation for the following mnemonics:
(BeginWaitCursor)
(CapsOff)
(CapsOn)
(CASessions)
(DrawImage)
(EndWaitCursor)
(InitInputData)
(RestoreWaitCursor)
(SetPrinterInfo)

Updated the following documentation:
Get Handles
RECNUM function
(Screen) mnemonic
(CPL64)
(CPL80)
(CPL132)
(DE)
(Switch Session) mnemonic
(FindFirstFile) mnemonic
(FindNextFile) mnemonic
(FileStatus) mnemonic

January 10, 2002 Added documentation for the following mnemonics:
(GetSessionPrinter)
(SetSessionPrinter)
December 6, 2001 Added documentation for the following Windows file mnemonics:
(CopyFile=source-file,destination-file,flags)
(EraseFile=file,flags)
(FileStatus=file,flags)
(FindFirstFile=file,flags)
(FindNextFile=flags)
(GetDirAlias=alias,flags)
(RenameFile=filename-1,filename-2,flags)
(SetDirAlias=alias,path,flags)
November 14, 2001 Added documentation for the CLEARFILE statement.
September 26, 2001 Added documentation for the WAIT statement and the (Flush) mnemonic. Updated the documentation for the (EasyScan) mnemonic.
August 30, 2001 Updated Comet exception messages (E85 description changed). Added documentation for the (PlaySound) mnemonic.
August 2, 2001 Added documentation for INCLUDE, (Copy from Clipboard), (Copy to Clipboard), and (Query Clipboard). Updated documentation for PSTAT (short partition names), DSTAT (for X00 device), END (for usefile purposes), (Launch) (result string), (Easy Scan) (disables other scan codes), special characters (@ is escape character), and Comet exception messages (new messages).
May 14, 2001 Added documentation for the BASE256, BASE64, RND, and RPOS functions; and the (Kill Session) mnemonic. Updated the statement summary, video mnemonics, and procedure division statements. Updated the Comet exception messages with the revised wording for E38.
April 4, 2001 Updated the documentation for the PSTAT function (note: position 41 contains the directory name of the object program currently running), the DSTAT function (for the X00 system device), and updated the documentation on the (Create Window) and (Delete Window) mnemonics to clarify that these mnemonics return the amount of remaining window memory).
February 21, 2001 Updated the documentation for the new INPUT statement (added length-override, multiple fields in a specified "tab order").
February 2, 2001 Updated the list of compiler error messages.
January 26, 2001 Updated the documentation for the (Easy Scan) mnemonic and the STS function to demonstrate how to retrieve the mouse coordinates on a mouse click.
January 9, 2001 Updated the documentation for the INQUIRE statement.
December 21, 2000 Added documentation for (CrMode) and (ShellExecute) mnemonics.
December 1, 2000 Added documentation for the EXITTO statement, and updated the appropriate related pages (EXIT, EXITALL, subprograms, and procedure division statements.
November 29, 2000 Added documentation for TRUE, FALSE, DECPASS, and EXEPASS system symbolic constants.
November 2, 2000 Updated the documentation for the BINARY function.
October 6, 2000 Added information about array exception processing, updated information about LUNs (on the OPEN and LUN pages), and documentation about the Get Handles DOS function.