more command is missing (or not)?

[Alpengreis]

I'm not sure about but I miss the more command. Have no more older versions of TCMD to test it ...

So, the following does not (no longer) works:

type example.txt | more

Is this WAD and what about the compatibility with CMD?

Greetings

 

[Charles Dye]

MORE is an external, MORE.EXE. It comes with Windows and should be in your SYSTEM32 directory.

Me, I've aliased MORE to LIST since MS-DOS days.

 

[vefatica]

Actually, it's MORE.COM. In spite of its name, it is a 64-bit PE32+ executable like many things in system32.

Did you remove ".COM" from the PATHEXT environment variable? That'd do it.

 

[Joe Caverly]

It depends on how your path is organized.

In my case,
I have c:\cygwin64\bin as the first entry in my path,
so that I can use the Cygwin versions,
thus;

E:\Utils>which more
more is an external : C:\cygwin64\bin\more.exe

E:\Utils>more --help

Usage:
 more [options] <file>...

A file perusal filter for CRT viewing.

Options:
 -d          display help instead of ringing bell
 -f          count logical rather than screen lines
 -l          suppress pause after form feed
 -c          do not scroll, display text and clean line ends
 -p          do not scroll, clean screen and display text
 -s          squeeze multiple blank lines into one
 -u          suppress underlining
 -<number>   the number of lines per screenful
 +<number>   display file beginning from line number
 +/<string>  display file beginning from search string match

     --help     display this help
 -V, --version  display version

For more details see more(1).

Thus, see which version of more that you are using.

As for me, I prefer using less;

type myfile.txt | less

Joe

 

[Alpengreis]

First, thank you all!

more.com is here

C:\Windows\System32\more.com

.com

is in pathext.

C:\Windows\System32

is in path.

type more-test.txt | more

is no problem in CMD!

type more-test.txt | more

does not work in TCC!

TCC: Unbekannter Befehl "more"

(means unknown command)

If am correctly it has worked yet with TCMD/TCC 30.x

What now?

PS: TCC can't find

C:\Windows\System32\more.com

more
TCC: Unbekannter Befehl "more"

So it has nothing to do with pipe. But why? Because it's a hardlink or so?

PPS: There seems really a problem with TCC 31.x and external commands.

type more-test.txt | more

does not work in TCC!

type more-test.txt | more.com

WORKS in TCC!

attrib.exe

does not work in TCC!

attrib

WORKS in TCC!

cmd

WORKS in TCC!

cmd.exe

WORKS in TCC!

all are hardlinks ...

PPPS:
Oh, I find something!

attrib.exe
TCC: (Sys) Das System kann die angegebene Datei nicht finden.
 "D:\_Tests\.exe"

means that the System can't find the file because TCC searched in current path only or at least not in system32!!
Of course attrib.exe exists in system32 folder and a

c:\Windows\System32\attrib.exe

works in TCC!

Could be the case because my "localized" de-CH Windows 10? However: within CMD this is all NO problem!

Totally confused!

 

[vefatica]

I have no problem with MORE.COM. But I see this, which seems odd.

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"

ATTRIB.EXE runs when a full path is given.

Also odd, the situation seems to be the same with TASKLIST.EXE but I can run it!

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

v:\> tasklist.exe

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

 

[Alpengreis]

Same here with attrib!

Maybe because it's an internal AND external command.

 

[Alpengreis]

Maybe also interesting:

which /a more
more ist ein unbekannter Befehl
which /a more.com
more.com ist verbunden mit : C:\Windows\System32\more.com

1st means "more is an unknown command"; 2nd "more.com is connected with C:\Windows\System32\more.com"

Same behaviour with mode.com (for example).

But all is ok (for example) with CMD:

which /a cmd
cmd ist ein externer Befehl: C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe
which /a cmd.exe
cmd.exe ist ein externer Befehl: C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe

 

[vefatica]

Same here with attrib!

Maybe because it's an internal AND external command.

TASKLIST is also both internal and external and TASKLIST.EXE runs.

 

[Alpengreis]

HA, you are right with tasklist. WEIRD ;-)

BUT NOW I believe I solved the problem (because your hint above, Vince).

At least in TC 31.x (probably that was necessary too in earlier versions??! I had to enable the option PATHEXT ("use pathext" or so). NOW it works again too here!

A BIG thank you, Vince!

 

[rconn]

The .COM extension for executable files was removed in TCMD v30 (not v31!) because .COM is a long-obsolete reference to DOS executables. However, since Microsoft has inexplicably decided to rename some of their .EXE files as .COM, I have added it back in v31 build 11.

 

[Alpengreis]

Thank you very much, Rex!