I just changed the directory alias from TMP: to TEMP: and replaced the references to TMP: in all my batch files (there were only three, and, in fact, I should be changing them to use the TMP: device instead of temporary files created in the temp directory). Training my mind and fingers to write...

Yes, of course. TMP: has become a special device. It is still works as a directory alias in many (but not all) circumstances. I'm not sure what the proper solution is. It might be very hard to prevent its being treated as a device in some commands and functions where it should work as a...

Many of my scripts use the @FULL function to get fully qualified standard path names for directories and files to pass to programs that do not know about directory aliases. Suddenly they have stopped working. Here are simple examples that illustrate the problem. The first shows TCC version 30...

If I run the following command, it finds all the lines in the alias.cfg file in the current directory. >fsearch /t"ffind" /l /u /v *.cfg Matching lines: 6 Matching files: 1 Total files searched: 12 However, if I change the file specification to "a*.cfg", nothing is found...

Joe, could you be a little more specific. I am not familiar with this facility at all. You say that you have a file named docs.ahk. Where is that file? You showed some code. Is that the contents (text) of the file? Is it just that line with no CR or LF? How do programs know how to find that...

I was not aware of such a requirement, and minus signs are certainly accepted, for both command aliases and directory aliases. Other special characters are also acceptable. In fact, I just tried the ones above the number keys, and almost all of them are acceptable and work. The set of directory...

Vince, your post got me to look at the TCEDIT editor (I generally use the VEDIT macro editor). I was disappointed to see that, while TCEDIT recognizes directory aliases on the command line, it does not recognize them with the file open menu or tool icon. For example, I keep my batch files in a...

Thank you, Charles. It took me a couple of tries to get the new files extracted from the ZIP archive and loaded, but I can now confirm that the help command is there and that the documentation has been updated. However, nested directory aliases seem still not to work fully. It seems that if...

I would suggest modifying the DIRCMP help to indicate that both directories can be aliases. The current help is confusing. Can you resolve directory aliases by calling the @full[] built-in function from the plugin? That would take care of it (unless it would do more than you want). Now that I...

I think I may have figured out the issue. I have many nested directory aliases. One that I was using in my test, for example, was "mp0:". It's definition is mp:2024-08\ It is based on the alias "mp:", which has the following definition: jgsgb:Mass-Pocha\ And this goes on for several more...

Sorry for the confusion, Joe. I guess I'm working too fast here. I hope that Charles is reading this thread and will answer, perhaps in a new thread. -- Jay

Joe, two more questions/comments about the plugin: The variable _fhver$ is not described in the help file. What is it? How can one invoke the help file? The TextUtils plugin has the command TextUtilsHelp, but there does not seem to be a similar command in the FileUtils plugin.

Joe, I just tried loading the plugin, and I experimented with the DIRCMP command using directory aliases for the arguments. I got an error message when either directory argument was an alias, as in dircmp dir1: dir2:. The help says, "the first directory; directory aliases are supported". It...

I didn't check the help for the "old history windows", but the help should be changed, as the help text essentially says that ONE line can be selected. I understand that. I'm only suggesting that the help include that information (and that "cmd=" is assumed in the absence of any column...

Who knew that one could highlight multiple commands! The help says the following: "You can view the extended command history in a scrollable popup window, and select the command to re-execute or modify from those displayed in the window." That is singular: the command. But, indeed, one can...