Hey it's only taken me 9 years to answer but better late than never! Running the following version: CMD.exe on Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.14393] TCC LE 14.00.9 x64 Windows 10 [Version 6.3.14393] I put these four statements in a batch file called if_test.bat. IF DEFINED PATH(ECHO 1)...

Just for posterity - my exact version is:TCC 17.00.75 x64 Working like a champ!

Thanks for looking into this. The key seems to be whether I'm running a batch script or an EXE. If it is an EXE, it never has the problem. I tried this again today (2/14/2015) with TCMD17 "32-bit" and the problem did not occur! (2/8/2015 build) I tried repeatedly to make it fail and...

Ok I've done a bit more testing. It appears that .EXE files run just fine in the other tab. I've run Digital Mars C++, Perl, Far Manager, and all work fine. The problem seems to be limited to batch files. Also, it works fine from the command line - I can execute each line of my script and it...

Vince, I am seeing the same thing. Lots of conhost.exe instances left over after testing. -Ron

Ok, here's a shorter version you can run yourself to see the problem. create a batch file called donothing.bat rem file:donothing.bat echo doing nothing then run it in a tab: start "donothing" /tab donothing.bat I get a window that is all black and shows nothing. it just hangs. The windows...

Hi Folks, I'm running one START /TABNA after another in a batch script in order to setup my preferred development environment (which is take command of course!) I'm using TakeCommand V15 64 bit but I tested this under several versions - it seems to have the same issue. It looks like this: REM...

Hi, I found a minor incompatibility with TCC vs CMD.exe. If you have an IF statement such as: if defined var JAVA_HOME( This gives an error in TCC but not in CMD. The solution is to add a space prior to the open paren. This works in both CMD and TCC. Basically, it sounds like a parser...