Works in debugger, not from cmd line

[Joe Caverly]

I'm using CMDebug v22.00.42 x64 on Microsoft Windows 7 64-bit [Version 6.1.7601]

MonthName.cmd is as follows;

c:\utils>type monthname.cmd
@for /f "tokens=%1" "delims= " %%G in ('echo Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec') do echo %%G

When I run this from cmd.exe, it does not work, and it is not supposed to work;

c:\utils>MonthName.cmd 6
"delims= " was unexpected at this time.

When I run this from CMDebug, it works;

Under Options, I have CMD Syntax selected.

If I change the line to read "tokens=%1 delims= ", which is the correct syntax, it works both from cmd.exe and CMDebugger.

With CMD Syntax selected, why does the incorrect syntax work from CMDebugger, when it should not?

Joe

 

[rconn]

When you run a batch file in CMDebug, it's actually executing TCC-RT. Selecting CMD syntax sets some internal TCC flags (duplicate CMD bugs, require trailing %'s for variables, only recognize the CMD subset of internal commands, etc.). It doesn't try to dumb down every TCC enhancement for those CMD commands.