Yipes, pipes!

May 20, 2008
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On Win7/32 (no INI file, no TCSTART, no plugins) all of these put TCC into a semi-useless state (the console goes blank, no prompt appears, when I type, I get only underscore characters in odd places, internal commands appear to do nothing, commands that start GUI things work (though I can't actually see the command), there's no transient TCC). If I fart around for a while, issuing commands I can't see and which apparently produce no output, and then issue "CMD", CMD.EXE starts OK ... when I exit CMD I see the output of all that farting around and a new TCC prompt (apparently back to normal).
[/code]echo foo | tpipe /simple=6
echo foo | g:\tc24\tpipe.exe /simple=6
echo foo | g:\tc23\tpipe /simple=6
echo foo | ffind /t"foo"
echo foo | tee foo.txt[/code]

All of the above are OK in v23 on Win7/32 and v24 on Win10/64.
 
May 20, 2008
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I'm pretty sure (not 100%) that those things worked a few days ago with build 29 because I first discovered it when using a BTM that I use often. Since it happens with no INI file, no TCSTART, and no plugins, I don't know where to look. Have you got any ideas? Is there an easy way to get the transient TCC to run without an INI file, TCSTART, or plugins?
 
May 20, 2008
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OK, I got it. When experimenting with console buffers in a plugin, I had created a TCEXIT.BTM and put this in it.
Code:
noop %@consoleb[%_startbuf]
I removed _STARTBUF from the plugin and forgot about the TCEXIT file. So the transient instance was evaluating
Code:
%@consoleb[]
when it exited. That was apparently switching to a new buffer. Should it do that (it is, I think, bad syntax)?

One thing I discovered in my experimenting was that a child same-console process shouldn't exit while using a buffer other than the one it started in.

While that TCEXIT was in place, I could replicate all the bad behavior like this:
Code:
start /c /b