System Variables
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Comet System Variables
Comet includes a number of system variables that may be used in an Internet Basic program without being defined in the Data Division.
Take care to not define your own variables with any of the following names:
| Variable | Length | Format | Description |
| CURPOS$ | 2 | hex-encoded | current position of cursor
byte 1 = row byte 2 = column |
| DATE | 6.0 | MMDDYY | system date |
| DATE$ | 6 | "MMDDYY"
system date | |
| DAY$ | 8 | "MM/DD/YY" | system date |
| ENTERLEVEL | 2.0 | nn | subprogram level number |
| EXCP | 2.0 | nn | last Comet exception |
| HELPKEY$ | 4 | user-defined | user-defined value for Comet Help System |
| ITERM$ | 3 | "Tnn" or "nnn" | initiating terminal number |
| LONGYEAR | 4.0 | YYYY | current year in long format |
| LONGYEAR$ | 4 | "YYYY" | current year in long format |
| MESSAGE$ | 32 | user-defined | user-defined string for passing messages to overlays |
| PARTITION$ | 3 | "Pnn" or "nnn" | current partition number |
| PRIORITY$ | 1 | hex | partition scheduling priority |
| RUNSTATE | 1.0 | n | security value for current partition |
| SYSPART$ | 3 | "Pnn" or "nnn" | name of most recently activated background partition |
| TERM$ | 3 | "Tnn" or "nnn" | current terminal number |
| TIME$ | 11 | "HH:MM:SS.DD" | system time |
| VERSION$ | 7 | "XXX.XXX" | current Comet system version number |
