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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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CMDebug Windows Batch File Debugger

  09/1/2017
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We have a number of users who tell us that they want to use Take Command's batch debugger, but their company only allows the use of CMD.EXE to run batch files. Although we do [...]

Windows Processes and Job Objects in TCC v21

  07/28/2017
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When Windows creates a new process, it doesn’t create a parent / child relationship with the new process. This means a new “child” processes will continue running [...]

Command Dialogs

  06/21/2017
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Take Command 21.0 Command Dialogs One of the biggest (and the most complex to implement) new features in Take Command 21.0 is the expanded Command [...]

Take Command 21.0

  06/19/2017
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Take Command 21.0 We released Take Command 21.0, and you can download a fully functional evaluation version from our web site. See What’s New in Version 21.0 in the [...]

TCC RT (RunTime) Released

  10/30/2016
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JP Software released TCC RT (RunTime) today. I've had frequent requests from business users for a run-time version of TCC, so developers can write scripts and then deploy [...]

Take Command 20.0 Released

  08/13/2016
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We have released Take Command 20.0. You can download v20 at: https://jpsoft.com/downloads/v20/tcmd.exe Note that the installer is a combined x86 / x64 installer; it will [...]

Take Command 18.0 Released

  06/28/2015
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We've just released the latest update to our Take Command and TCC suite - Take Command 18.0. Take Command 18.0 has hundreds of new features, including: · 7 new [...]

Take Command 17.0 Released

  12/4/2014
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JP Software has released Take Command 17.0. After the major UI changes in 16.0, we have made even more changes to the internals for 17.0. Take Command, TCC, and the IDE / [...]

Take Command 16.0 Public Beta – TCC features

  12/31/2013
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Although Take Command 16.0 is primarily a UI update, I did add a number of features to TCC (the console command processor) as well. V16 includes an internal Lua [...]

Take Command 16.0 Public Beta and the New Ribbon UI

  12/30/2013
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JP Software has just released the public beta for Take Command 16.0. This is primarily intended as a UI update, though there are a number of new features for TCC as well [...]