Fixed Can't find ATTRIB.EXE

[vefatica]

This is buried in another thread. According to ProcessMonitor, TCC doesn't even look in c:\windows\system32.

v:\> echo %@word[";",3,%path]
C:\WINDOWS\system32

v:\> which /a attrib
attrib is an internal command
attrib is an external : C:\WINDOWS\system32\attrib.EXE

v:\> attrib.exe
TCC: (Sys) The system cannot find the file specified.
 "V:\.exe"

 

[Rodolfo]

I see the same on my system: TCC 31.00.10 x64 Windows 10 [Version 10.0.19045.3448]
regards
Rodolfo Giovanninetti

 

[Alpengreis]

Same here too with 31.00.10 ...

 

[Joe Caverly]

Using the Option command;

This disables the internal ATTRIB command.

E:\Utils>which attrib 
attrib is an external : C:\WINDOWS\system32\attrib.exe

Now the external attrib.exe works;

E:\Utils>attrib.exe *.ico 
A                    E:\Utils\Hardware.ico
A                    E:\Utils\in-line calculator.ico
A                    E:\Utils\Note.ico
A                    E:\Utils\percentchange.ico

Joe

 

[vefatica]

That behavior is quite different from that of TASKLIST, for which there's an internal and an external.

v:\> which /a tasklist
tasklist is an internal command
tasklist is an external : C:\WINDOWS\system32\tasklist.EXE

v:\> tasklist.exe | head /n4

Image Name                     PID Session Name        Session#    Mem Usage
========================= ======== ================ =========== ============
System Idle Process              0 Services                   0          8 K

v:\> tasklist | head /n4
    0  [System Process]
    4  System
   88  Secure System
  156  Registry

 

[vefatica]

And HEAD.EXE and TAIL.EXE (both findable via %PATH) work like TASKLIST and not like ATTRIB.

CHCP (vs. CHCP.COM) too.

 

[rconn]

ATTRIB allows an immediately trailing '.' to specify the current directory. As does a few other commands like DIR, and (for other reasons) ECHO. That prevents TCC from searching for an ATTRIB.EXE.

I have made a (breaking) change to 31.0.11 to disallow the trailing '.'; we'll see how many users complain about that ...