Why does TCCRT return VIEW as an internal command?

[Joe Caverly]

c:\users\jlc\utils>"C:\Program Files\JPSoft\TCC_RT_22\tcc.exe" /I /Q /C ver

TCC-RT  22.00.40 x64   Windows 7 [Version 6.1.7601]

c:\users\jlc\utils>"C:\Program Files\JPSoft\TCC_RT_22\tcc.exe" /I /Q /C if isinternal view echo Yes
Yes

My work around for this is to use;

iff %_TCCRT eq 0 then
 view thefile.txt
else
 list thefile.txt
endiff

but still, why does TCCRT return VIEW as an internal command, when VIEW is not part of TCC-RT?

Joe

 

[rconn]

VIEW is a disabled internal command. Disabled internals will still return 1 for an "is internal".

 

[AnrDaemon]

That's wrong :/

 

[Charles Dye]

It looks like VIEW is a valid and active command in TCC-RT. VIEW /? dumps text to stdout. So perhaps not "disabled" so much as "pithed".

 

[Alpengreis]

If a command IS an internal command (disabled, half disabled or not disabled), the return value has to be ALWAYS "1" IMHO. Indeed another conditional could be helpful here, see suggestion from Joe:

https://jpsoft.com/forums/threads/create-an-isdisabled-conditional.9017/

 

[AnrDaemon]

It looks like VIEW is a valid and active command in TCC-RT. VIEW /? dumps text to stdout. So perhaps not "disabled" so much as "pithed".

Yes, "view /?" dups help text, but

view "%~0"

does nothing.

 

[Charles Dye]

Not surprising. V is a licensed product. I don't know the details, but presumably Rex has to pay for every copy he ships. TCC-RT is free, so including the .DLL would be a 100% loss. (I did the math.) Dunno why the internal-command bit isn't disabled, though.

if %_tccrt == 1 alias view=list