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Notifications in Take Command / TCC v27

JP Software released Take Command / TCC version 27 in December 2020. Two new types of notifications are included in v27: Activity notifications for Take Command tab windowsON ... notifications in TCC (previously only available in batch files) are now available on the command line and aliases. In this post, we're going to talk about activity [...]

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Redirection / Piping and Unicode at the Windows Command Prompt

  04/16/2020
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Questions about how to do Unicode input / output and piping appear regularly on the JP Software Support Forums. It can be a complicated issue due to the way Windows was [...]

UTF-8 at the Windows Command Prompt with Take Command / TCC v26

  04/1/2020
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TCC has for the past 20+ years supported Unicode using UTF-16, the format used internally by all Windows versions since NT.  In the past few years there has been a [...]

Take Command / TCC / CMDebug v26 Public Beta

  03/22/2020
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Take Command, TCC, and CMDebug v26 are now available as public betas. See What’s New in Version 26 in the help for information on the new features. Version 26 is now [...]

Windows Batch Debugging in Take Command / TCC v25

  10/18/2019
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One of our primary aims in version 25 was to enhance the batch debugger / IDE.  We implemented nearly all of the IDE feature requests in the Suggestions Forum, as well [...]

Managing License Keys in Take Command Version 25

  10/18/2019
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Take Command and TCC v25 have some new options on the registration dialog to allow users to view their registered computers, generate manual keys for systems without [...]

Take Command / TCC v25 Released

  08/27/2019
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We released Take Command, TCC, TCC-RT, and CMDebug 25.0 today, and you can download a fully functional evaluation version from our web site [...]

Take Command v25 Public Beta

  08/15/2019
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Version 25 is now available as a public beta. See What's New in Version 25 in the help for information on the new features. Version 25 is feature complete; we are still [...]

Take Command v25 Call for Features

  03/28/2019
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We're beginning the design phase for Take Command / TCC / CMDebug / TCC-RT version 25. If you have suggestions or compatibility issues, please post them to our [...]

Take Command / TCC 24.0 Command Dialogs

  03/27/2019
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"Take Command doesn't have enough commands, and is too easy to learn".  Said nobody, ever.TCC has 246 internal commands, with thousands of options. As new features [...]

Key Redefinitions in TCC v24

  01/29/2019
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When is a UI Update a Major Update? In the last few years, JP Software has adopted an unofficial policy that odd-numbered major releases are primarily feature [...]