dir /32 and VIEW

[Joe Caverly]

The /32 option for dir works great in TCC34...

E:\Utils>dir w*.exe /32

 Volume in drive E is New Volume   Serial number is 2d3e:6e62
 Directory of  E:\Utils\w*.exe

2016-09-09   1:41          14,336 »WasFile.exe
2017-12-25  20:52       7,181,824  websocketd.exe
2003-07-09  15:23          52,736 »winexp.exe
2024-03-22  16:54           8,704  WinVer.exe
2017-10-03  13:44          58,576 »WirelessNetView.exe
2012-06-11   9:56          78,848 »WizApp.exe
2023-02-25   4:00         239,104 »WMIGen.exe
           7,634,128 bytes in 7 files and 0 dirs    7,651,328 bytes allocated
   1,340,144,517,120 bytes free

Looking at it in view, though, gives different results...

dir w*.exe /32 | view

...gives me...

So does...

dir w*.exe /32 | pipeview

What works for me is...

dir w*.exe /32 | pee view

Yes, the TCC font is different from the view font...

E:\Utils>which font
font is a plugin command (ConFont)

E:\Utils>font
IBM 3270  16 × 34  (bold)

...while the view font is...

The font difference does not matter, though, since I can get the results that I want using...

dir w*.exe /32 | pee view

Why the difference between view vs. pipeview vs. pee view?

Joe

 

[rconn]

That is a UTF-16 character, which is going to be translated to an 8-bit character when it is written to the pipe unless you've defined UTF16 output (or you use the UTF16 pipe option).

VIEW and PIPEVIEW both use V.EXE to display the output.

 

[Joe Caverly]

What does PEE VIEW use?

Is PEE converting the output to handle the UTF-16 character?

Joe

 

[Joe Caverly]

Thanks Rex, I forgot about the pipe option.

Yes, this works as described...

R:\>dir /32 u:\w*.exe |:u view

Ref: Redirection / Piping and Unicode at the Windows Command Prompt

Joe

 

[rconn]

What does PEE VIEW use?

Is PEE converting the output to handle the UTF-16 character?

PEE (because it's an internal command) converts ASCII back to UTF-16.