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Documentation @SELECT (but not SPLIT) Works with CLIPn: and TMPn:

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It might be helpful to add to the documentation for the SELECT function that the data can come not only from COM: and CLIP: but also from the other CLIP and TMP memory areas. This was true already with at least version 35, but it was not added to the documentation.

The WhatsNew states:

/input - Now supports CLIPn: and TMPn: pseudo-devices.​
/output - Now supports CLIPn: and TMPn: pseudo-devices.​

This is not described in the documentation and does not appear to be true. It's not clear how the output file can be a pseudo-device since only one output file name is optionally provided. Here's what happens when I try to specify TMP9: as the input file.

->split /L=7 /s=10 tmp9: junk.txt​
TCC: Syntax error "Cannot open file "C:\junk.txt.011". The system cannot find the file specified"​

No junk.txt files were created (and none were present before the command was run).

If a real file is specified as the input, then the output files are created.

->SPLIT /L=7 /S=10 XM_Radio_Channels.txt junk.txt​
->d junk.txt​
4/19/2026 12:06 104 junk.txt.010​
4/19/2026 12:06 125 junk.txt.011​
 
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