Error 0xc0000142 and FAR Manager

[DimmY]

Periodically (but regularly) error 0xc0000142 occurs when calling tcc.exe from the FAR Manager. It happens in the following way: everything is working fine, but after a while (especially after the computer exits sleep mode), this error occurs when trying to execute any program from FAR Manager. This issue exists for a long time - at least with four last versions of TCC.
How can I fix this very annoying issue?

 

[rconn]

I'm not sure I understand what you're saying -- is it that TCC (and only TCC) has problems being started from FAR manager, or that all programs have the same problem?

A 0xc0000142 error comes from the Windows loader; the app itself is never started.

 

[DimmY]

FAR Manager calls command interpreter to run external and most internal commands. I have TCC installed as default command interpreter. And sometimes the issue above occurs. To get rid of the problem, I have to close the FAR Manager and run it again. It's easy, but annoying.

 

[rconn]

If it works when you restart FAR Manager, that sounds more like a FAR Manager (or Windows) issue than a TCC one.

 

[DimmY]

That's the answer I expected and feared.

 

[Christian Albaret]

If you don't need TCC's features, you can change FAR's COMSPEC to point to CMD (through a batch file with SETLOCAL + SET + FAR, batch file itself called from an alias or from a shortcut). I use this technique for a few programs.
Not applicable if you want TCC's features when executing from FAR.

 

[DimmY]

If you don't need TCC's features

If I did not need TCC functions, I would not ask this question. :)

 

[Christian Albaret]

If I did not need TCC functions, I would not ask this question. :)

One trick could be to have FAR spawn CMD, and have CMD call TCC — but you would have to somehow change the command issued by FAR.

 

[DimmY]

you would have to somehow change the command issued by FAR.

You are talking in riddles. How should I change the command?

 

[Christian Albaret]

How should I change the command?

I don't use FAR and thus don't know directly. Since FAR is widely used, it should be configurable in some way. Looking at http://farmanager.com/, I see "greatly extended by external DLL modules — plugins" (though writing a DLL is probably overkill just for passing a command from CMD to TCMD) (it could be that is type of extension is based on the type of the file, which is not what matters here). A simple but repetitive way is maybe to prefix command with something like TC, and TC.BAT is a script that passes the command over to TCC.

 

[DimmY]

Christian Albaret, sorry, but your advice is useless.