Take Command 10.0.66 beta test

[rconn]

I've uploaded a test build of Take Command 10.0.66 to the ftp beta area (ftp://jpsoft.com/beta/tcmd.exe).

This build has a (hopefully final) fix for the Windows API bug that causes (usually rarely) a Ctrl-Break or (even more rarely) a Ctrl-C to terminate TCMD. If you've experienced problems with Ctrl-Break or Ctrl-C terminating TCMD, please try this build and let me know if you still have any problems.

I've run this build overnight (8+ hours) on three computers with weights holding down the Ctrl and Break keys and haven't been able to make it terminate.

 

[Emilio III]

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 02:27:32PM -0500, rconn wrote:

> I've uploaded a test build of Take Command 10.0.66 to the ftp beta
> area (ftp://jpsoft.com/beta/tcmd.exe).
>
> This build has a (hopefully final) fix for the Windows API bug that
> causes (usually rarely) a Ctrl-Break or (even more rarely) a Ctrl-C to
> terminate TCMD. If you've experienced problems with Ctrl-Break or
> Ctrl-C terminating TCMD, please try this build and let me know if you
> still have any problems.

Although I never had this problem, I had hoped that the new version
might also help with mine (Ctrl-C being blocked from an attached SFU
tcsh shell tab). It doesn't. :-)

 

[Jim Cook]

TCC 10.00.66 Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
TCC Build 66 Windows XP Build 2600 Service Pack 3
TCMD v10.00.66

(Running 9.02.154, I could not duplicate any of the below problems.)

.) I have not had any failures while manually pressing Ctrl-C. I'm
only a hundred or so in, however.

.) I also noticed that the Ctrl-C is not being passed through to an
application that does getch().

.) Running stand alone (not in TCMD), and typing EXIT, I get a fault
that does not generate a .GPF file:
---------------------------
tcc.exe - Application Error
---------------------------
The instruction at "0x02d43d5e" referenced memory at "0x02d43d5e". The
memory could not be "written".


Click on OK to terminate the program
---------------------------
OK
---------------------------


.) Running inside TCMD, the following command terminates TCMD and
orphans the two TCC windows. Running this same command in TCC
stand-alone does not cause trouble.
for /l %h in (1,1,100) do (echo %h %+ keystack Ctrl-c)

---------------------------
tcmd.exe - Application Error
---------------------------
The instruction at "0x0213c042" referenced memory at "0x0213c042". The
memory could not be "written".


Click on OK to terminate the program
---------------------------
OK
---------------------------


On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Emilio III <> wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 02:27:32PM -0500, rconn wrote:
>
>
> ---Quote---
>> I've uploaded a test build of Take Command 10.0.66 to the ftp beta
>> area (ftp://jpsoft.com/beta/tcmd.exe).
>>
>> This build has a (hopefully final) fix for the Windows API bug that
>> causes (usually rarely) a Ctrl-Break or (even more rarely) a Ctrl-C to
>> terminate TCMD. *If you've experienced problems with Ctrl-Break or
>> Ctrl-C terminating TCMD, please try this build and let me know if you
>> still have any problems.
> ---End Quote---
> Although I never had this problem, I had hoped that the new version
> might also help with mine (Ctrl-C being blocked from an attached SFU
> tcsh shell tab). *It doesn't. :-)
>
>
>
>
>

--
Jim Cook
2009 Saturdays: 4/4, 6/6, 8/8, 10/10, 12/12 and 5/9, 9/5, 7/11, 11/7.
Next year they're Sunday.

 

[rconn]

Emilio III wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 02:27:32PM -0500, rconn wrote:
>
>
> ---Quote---
>> I've uploaded a test build of Take Command 10.0.66 to the ftp beta
>> area (ftp://jpsoft.com/beta/tcmd.exe).
>>
>> This build has a (hopefully final) fix for the Windows API bug that
>> causes (usually rarely) a Ctrl-Break or (even more rarely) a Ctrl-C to
>> terminate TCMD. If you've experienced problems with Ctrl-Break or
>> Ctrl-C terminating TCMD, please try this build and let me know if you
>> still have any problems.
> ---End Quote---
> Although I never had this problem, I had hoped that the new version
> might also help with mine (Ctrl-C being blocked from an attached SFU
> tcsh shell tab). It doesn't. :-)

Completely unrelated issue.

Rex Conn
JP Software

 

[dim]

On 2009-04-17 21:27, rconn wrote:

> This build has a (hopefully final) fix for the Windows API bug that causes (usually rarely) a Ctrl-Break or (even more rarely) a Ctrl-C to terminate TCMD. If you've experienced problems with Ctrl-Break or Ctrl-C terminating TCMD, please try this build and let me know if you still have any problems.

FWIW, I didn't have any problems before with Ctrl-C or Ctrl-Break, and none with this build either.

What is funny though, with build 64, a Ctrl-C only took effect on the key up event, not on the key down. With build 66, this seems to have changed.

 

[rconn]

dim wrote:

> On 2009-04-17 21:27, rconn wrote:
>
>
> ---Quote---
>> This build has a (hopefully final) fix for the Windows API bug that causes (usually rarely) a Ctrl-Break or (even more rarely) a Ctrl-C to terminate TCMD. If you've experienced problems with Ctrl-Break or Ctrl-C terminating TCMD, please try this build and let me know if you still have any problems.
> ---End Quote---
> FWIW, I didn't have any problems before with Ctrl-C or Ctrl-Break, and none with this build either.
>
> What is funny though, with build 64, a Ctrl-C only took effect on the key up event, not on the key down. With build 66, this seems to have changed.

WAD.

Rex Conn
JP Software

 

[vefatica]

On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:27:39 -0500, rconn <> wrote:

|I've uploaded a test build of Take Command 10.0.66 to the ftp beta area

Was there a build 65?
--
- Vince

 

[rconn]

vefatica wrote:

> On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:27:39 -0500, rconn <> wrote:
>
> |I've uploaded a test build of Take Command 10.0.66 to the ftp beta area
>
> Was there a build 65?

Yes -- it was a test build for Windows 7. (I posted an announcement
about it here a few days ago.)

Rex Conn
JP Software

 

[Juanma Barranquero]

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 21:27, rconn <> wrote:

> This build has a (hopefully final) fix for the Windows API bug that causes (usually rarely) a Ctrl-Break or (even more rarely) a Ctrl-C to terminate TCMD. Â*If you've experienced problems with Ctrl-Break or Ctrl-C terminating TCMD, please try this build and let me know if you still have any problems.

It is apparently working fine. "Apparently" in the sense that I
haven't been able to make it crash in the use cases where it often did
before.

Juanma