New features in version 4.2 are:

It is possible to declare and do change pointer variables

Commands to set an area of an array to a value ( SETI, SETF, SETS, SETB, SETC)

TIMER avilable as Integer-returning function

Increment-/Decrement-functions for Float-variables ( INCF, DECF)

FLASHSIZE has a third optional variable parameter where the amount of memory blocks that will become free at next memory management is stored (old PVs only)

SETTIME changes the system time

SYSDLG shows system-related dialogs

FBHASH and FBBHASH calculate the hash value of the filebuffer (text or binary)

GETFP returns the file pointer to a file number

the optional parameter mode in DRAWICON changes the drawing mode

SCROLL scrolls the content of a screen area

EXEC got two additional parameters for not allowing the compiler messages and to submit a parameter to the program being started

PARAMETER$ contains the parameter a program was called with

SGN returns the sign of an integer value

"real" constants may have negative values

the system clipboard can be read and changed by the global variable CLIPBOARD

initialized BOOL- and CHAR- constants are possible:

CONST C&=("my char array") CONST B!=(true,false,1,0)

the keyword CASE allows range checkings (CASE <=5, CASE 5 TO 8)

explicit conversion from BOOL or CHAR to INT is allowed