Speaking of VIEW

[vefatica]

The one command below results in all the output seen in the tab. Below that is the beginning of VIEW's display; note that some headers and blank lines are missing. All happens correctly if I do the same thing in a console.

 

[vefatica]

Regarding the above, it's interesting to note that neither the text "Dir2" nor the text "2015-20" appear in the output of that command.

 

[Charles G]

Did you forget to use /B for bare?

Or whatever the switches are to not show the header or the footer.

 

[vefatica]

Did you forget to use /B for bare?

Or whatever the switches are to not show the header or the footer.

You saw the command, "dir /s v:\ | view". That's what I meant. The rest of the output has the expected headers.

 

[vefatica]

Here's a complete and slightly more concise one. First, in the TCMD tab, the (correct) contents on v:\test\, then the troublesome command (piped through VIEW) and its in-tab consequences. Second, the entire output shown by VIEW.

 

[Charles G]

Sorry - I don't use View so I thought it was wanting a filelist, a file per line, to show. Not whatever STDIN was with the pipe.

Here is my errors with VIEW

TCC  18.00.30 x64   Windows 7 [Version 6.1.7601]
Copyright 2015 JP Software Inc.  All Rights Reserved
Registered to Charles S. Galloway - 5 System License

FixNames v0.28.0 loaded.
[C:\Program Files\JPSoft\TCMD18_x64]dir | view
TCC: (Sys) C:\TCMD\TCEXIT.btm [3]  The system cannot find the file specified.
"fixnames"
TCC: C:\TCMD\TCEXIT.btm [5]  No aliases defined

[C:\Program Files\JPSoft\TCMD18_x64]

 

[rconn]

Not reproducible here (either Vince's or Charles's problems).

Charles - your problem is definitely with your TCSTART (which is trying to do things it shouldn't when piping to an internal command in a child shell).

Vince, try it without your TCSTART / aliases / plugins.

 

[vefatica]

Vince, try it without your TCSTART / aliases / plugins.

Pretty much the same:

 

[vefatica]

And when that was over, these were in my history:

Volume in drive V is DATA  Serial number is c007:d3e4
Directory of  V:\*
2015-08-15  12:46  <DIR>  .
2015-08-15  12:46  <DIR>  ..
-03  14:21  42  filelist

 

[vefatica]

Other crazy things happen ion TCMD with pipes ... things that don't happen in consoles. Here's the partial result of "dir | cls"

v:\> v:\> TCC: (Sys) The parameter is incorrect.
 "in"

v:\> TCC: Unknown command "Directory"

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

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

v:\> TCC: (Sys) Access is denied.
 "V:\empty"

v:\> TCC: (Sys) Access is denied.
 "V:\foo"

v:\> TCC: (Sys) Access is denied.
 "V:\ProgramData"

v:\> TCC: (Sys) Access is denied.
 "V:\prospero"

v:\> TCC: (Sys) Access is denied.
 "V:\test"

v:\> TCC: Unknown command "2015-08-14"

v:\> TCC: Unknown command "2014-11-17"

v:\> TCC: Unknown command "2015-05-18"

SNIP

 

[rconn]

Other crazy things happen ion TCMD with pipes ... things that don't happen in consoles. Here's the partial result of "dir | cls"

None of that is reproducible on any of my systems -- which isn't surprising, since there is absolutely no difference in pipe behavior when running in a console vs. running in TCMD. You've got a configuration difference between your standalone TCC processes & your TCMD tab windows.

If this was a TCMD / TCC issue, I'd already have thousands of complaints about it. I pipe in TCMD tab windows many times a day, as do most other TCMD users.

 

[rconn]

Pretty much the same:
View attachment 888

That doesn't tell me anything -- the issue is what is in your TCC child pipe processes, not the parent process.

 

[Charles G]

Not reproducible here (either Vince's or Charles's problems).

Charles - your problem is definitely with your TCSTART (which is trying to do things it shouldn't when piping to an internal command in a child shell).

echo %_PIPE, %_TRANSIENT
PAUSE

IFF %_PIPE EQ 1 THEN
  QUIT
ENDIFF

IFF %_TRANSIENT EQ 1 THEN
  QUIT
ENDIFF

alias unknown_cmd C:\Z_UserFiles\JPSoft\BTM_000\UC.BTM

plugin /l c:\TCMD\Plugins\fixnames\FixNames-x64.dll

iff %@index["%cmdcmdline",/c type TP] gt 0 .and. %_pipe eq 1 then
  rem   TPIPE pipe process
  if %@regex[^TP\d+\.tmp$,%@word[-0,%cmdcmdline]] eq 1 quit
endiff

alias /r C:\TCMD\alias.txt

window max

Is my entire TCStart.btm

 

[rconn]

You have a PAUSE in your TCSTART.btm??

WINDOW MAX is pointless if you're running in a TCMD tab window.

 

[Charles G]

PAUSE is just to see what the values of _PIPE and _TRANSIENT are.....

 

[vefatica]

OK, the culprit was this line in TCSTART.

IF %_TCTAB == 1 TRANSIENT OFF

That's a recent addition and isn't in the TCSTART of any previous versions. I don't recall what I might have been testing, or what other reason I might have had for putting it there. I also don't understand exactly how it screwed things up.

 

[Charles G]

_TRANSIENT returns 1 if the current shell is transient (started with a /C, see Command Line Options for details), or 0 otherwise

TRANSIENT allows you to change the shell's transient mode (i.e., whether it was started with a /C), so that you can make a transient session permanent (or vice versa).

So both are valid.

 

[w_krieger]

How does view pick up piped text, I didn't think the full version understood text on a 4nt pipe.

 

[vefatica]

How does view pick up piped text, I didn't think the full version understood text on a 4nt pipe.

Temporary files.