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TAKE COMMAND 11.0
Welcome to our help! We have designed this help file to accompany our products Take Command, Take Command/LE, and TCC/LE. For a description of TCC/LE, see TCC and TCC/LE.
Take Command is designed for Windows XP, Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 2008, and Windows 7, and is available in 32-bit and 64-bit versions. Take Command combines the best features of the GUI and character-mode interfaces. You can have multiple console applications open in tabbed windows, with a Windows Explorer-like interface available for those times when you need a visual look at your folders.
Take Command is composed of three elements which work closely together:
Take Command Environment - A rich development and operations environment that allows you to:
| • | Run multiple console and GUI applications simultaneously in tabbed windows, including our own Take Command Console (TCC), CMD.EXE, PowerShell and bash. Take Command will display output much faster (up to 10x!) than running the application in a console window. |
| • | Cut and paste text |
| • | Drag and drop files into tab windows from an Explorer-like environment, other applications, or the desktop |
| • | Create and edit command scripts |
| • | Debug batch scripts |
Take Command Console (TCC) - A command processor compatible with CMD.EXE (the default command processor in Windows XP / 2003 / Vista / 2008) but substantially enhanced with thousands of additional features. (Take Command/LE includes TCC/LE rather than the full TCC -- see TCC vs. TCC/LE for a comparison). TCC provides the ability to:
| • | Interactively run commands, such as DIR, COPY, etc |
| • | Interactively run batch script files, such as .CMD, .BAT or .BTM scripts |
| • | Run batch scripts as background processes based on timed schedules or operational triggers, such as changes in the system environment |
Take Command Language - A mature scripting language based on and compatible with CMD.EXE, but massively enhanced. It includes:
| • | 170+ internal commands |
| • | 250+ functions |
| • | 160+ variables |
| • | Hundreds of additional options for CMD compatible commands |
| • | Additional underlying capabilities, such as the ability to access FTP and HTTP sites as if they were local disk drives |
The following image shows how the pieces fit together. The overall environment surrounds a set of consoles, each with its own tab. Each console can run commands in the Take Command language (or other languages, such as PowerShell or bash, in additional tab windows).
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