CAL Environment Variables

ChemFinder provides several variables to allow you to retrieve information about the current ChemFinder environment. They cannot be set directly, but are modified as a consequence of other commands.

For example, the menu command:

Record Next

increments the current RECNO by 1.

For a complete list of variables, click Help on the Enter Cal Command dialog box.

$INDEX

$RECNO

$NUM_RECS

$DTBA_NAME_LONG

$DTBA_NAME_SHORT

$FORM_NAME_LONG

$FORM_NAME_SHORT

$CFW_DIR

$FORM_DIR

$SYSTEM_DIR

Examples