Spruced-up copy/move output - different-colored lines, emoji, ANSI,...
Yay! I decided to modernize the appearance of my copy/move commands... Each line is a unique color & begins with an appropriate emoji Errors and footers are double-height & blink Errors are...
View ArticleStill having problems with TCMD randomly closing or crashing
Various times I find that Take Command is no longer running when I never closed it, as if something crashed it. I haven't noticed any error logs (although I haven't checked Windows Event Viewer yet)....
View ArticleRESOLUTION command might include monitor scaling info
Code: C:\>resolution \\.\DISPLAY1, Intel(R) UHD Graphics 630 Monitor: Generic PnP Monitor Refresh rate: 60 Hz Color depth: 32 Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 Desktop region: (-1920, 358), (-1, 1437)...
View ArticleCrash in conhost.exe
Recently I've had some crashes in conhost.exe while TCC is executing a "simple" text-search alias. This is the WinDbg report from the last incident. First the modules: Code:...
View Article@CAPI question
I experimented with the @CAPI function and found it quite annoying. E.g. a echo %@capi[libcurl.dll,curl_easy_init] works OK. But all the handles to libcurl.dll (and all sub DLLs and .PDB-files) are not...
View Articlecopy / ntfs data streams
does the copy command also copy all the ntfs data stream contained in the file?
View ArticleCMdebugger, TCC v 29
CMDebug seems not to be a part of TCC v 29. Please confirm. BDebugger start up fine but all commands seems to be "unknown" when I use "step into" Please advise. Regards Flemming PS: Attached the start...
View ArticleHow to increase font size in file explorer
Hi All, How do you increase the font size for the file explorer? I've found settings to increase the fonts for the console and the tool bar but can't find a setting for the file explorer. Thanks!
View Articleecho-rainbow.bat - rainbow-ize any message
Rainbow-echo (echo-rainbow.bat). Included in attachments is echo-rainbow.bat, as well as set-colors.bat which is optional and used in a non-required way. Code: @echo off rem *** Are we running in test...
View ArticleTerminal problems
I'm using TCC 30.00.22 under Windows Conhost w/o the Legacy Console. on Win-10 (19045.3324) My issue is that after running some programs that messes up the console settings (or prints some illegal...
View ArticleOokla speedtest command line version
Get it for Windows (64-bit) here (scroll down to downloads). It's a zip with 2 files. For help ... --help (lots of options) For a list of servers (nearby I imagine) ... -L Just run it or specify a...
View Articlestrange piping question - is there a way to allow the move command's...
So you know how the move command displays a percentage-progress indicator if you use the /g option? Well, if you pipe/redirect the move command's STDOUT+STDERR to a file, obviously the characters...
View ArticleReset STD_INPUT_HANDLE after running an external.
Some (ill-behaved?) externals apparently monkey with the mode of STD_INPUT_HANDLE (see this thread). I suggest TCC reset the mode after running an external app.
View ArticleIF ISNUMBER ... ?
Is there a simple way to determine if a string will represent a number when passed to @EVAL? If there is, I missed it. If not, it would be useful
View ArticleSHORTCUT suggestions
1. If the target command does not contain any of : / \ or %, and does not exist in the current directory, do a %path% search for it. For example: Code: shortcut notepad.exe "" "" ""...
View ArticleTemporarily Disable Library Functions
If you put an asterisk (*) immediately before a command in the value of an alias definition then TCC will not interpret that command as another alias. So you can do things like: alias dir=*dir /w to...
View ArticleAn alias whose action depends on the name used to invoke it
I never thought of doing this until today. It works. I must now think of a use for it. Code: v:\> alias z*ero `echo %@repeat[0,%@len[%0]]` v:\> z 0 v:\> ze 00 v:\> zer 000 v:\> zero 0000...
View ArticleWindows Terminal duplicate tab/pane with current directory
If you run TCC in Windows Terminal and use duplicate tab (Ctrl-Shift-d) or duplicate pane (Alt-Shift-d) you can get the new tab/pane to have the same working directory by prefixing your PROMPT with...
View ArticleCharacter editor running in tab in Take Command causes line error
When I run Vim within a tab of PowerShell, WSL or TCC it opens like this: The next two are what PowerShell and TCC look like after exiting VIM. After VIM runs the command prompt keeps moving to the...
View ArticleTOAST /image from a .DLL
TOAST presently allows one to select the image file to be displayed with the /image option. I would like to suggest being allowed to also select an image from a dll. For example; Code: toast...
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