Win10 inactive window title bar color
Win10 is, out of the box, pretty mellow looking ... except for the default bright white window title bars (active and inactive). You can "personalize" (dialog) the color for active windows, but not for...
View ArticleSend SMS from Command Line
Further to https://jpsoft.com/forums/threads/send-sms-from-command-line.8516/ Microsoft used to have a program called SMS Sender back in the Windows XP days. I found a document in regards to SMS...
View ArticleFinding Related accounts
No code here, we do this using Excel VBA, but the same approach could be done in TCC. Scenario: Hospital records are downloaded as pipe-delimited single-line text records that contain patient and...
View ArticleUsing NotePad++ as a (somewhat) IDE for TCC-RT
Requirements: NotePad++ (Notepad++) NppExec Plugin (Notepad++ Plugins - Browse /NppExec at SourceForge.net) TCC-RT (TCC-RT - TCC runtime for Windows batch files) From NotePad++, create the command to...
View ArticleWindows tricks
I just discovered these today. 1. Win10's SORT.EXE has an uncocumented "/case" option to make it case-sensitive Code: d:\data\tcclibrary> (echo b^r^nB^r^nA^r^Na) | sort A a b B...
View ArticleGlobal command not working
I have a situation. I have a folder where ill behaved software don't clean up after exiting and leave a lot of .tmp files in various folder levels. I need to backup the folder but without these*.tmp...
View ArticleOpen UWP apps from the command line on Windows 10
I was looking for a way to open, from the command line, Windows 10 UWP apps. I am referring to Windows 10 UWP apps that are downloaded from the store. While the source code for most of the Microsoft...
View ArticleCLS in Windows Terminal
AFAIKT, TCC's "CLS /C" does not clear the whole consle screen buffer in Windows Terminal (as it does in Conhost). The same goes for my FCLS plugin (4CONSOLE). This will clear the window and what...
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Controlling Windows Terminal with KEYSTACK
I have been playing with Windows Terminal. Earlier today I wanted an instance of WSL in a vertically-split pane, next to TCC. That would require opening Terminal's drop-down actions menu...
View ArticleSet scrolling region in Windows Terminal
If you want to feel like you're using an antique piece of hardware, try this in Windows Terminal. Code: echos ^e[2J^e[3J^e[2;%@dec[%_rows]r^e[1;1HBanner goes here^e[%_rows;1HStatus line goes...
View ArticleChange Default Prompt
I know that in Windows itself you can change the default command prompt so when you execute prompt from the command line you get your own default prompt instead of the default $p$g, However I haven't...
View ArticleHow do you force copy to over write a file with asking any questions?
I use to be able to copy a file using the switch /y to force it to copy quietly however that doesn't seem to work. I don't see a switch to do that anymore and when I do put it in the copy command TCC...
View ArticleTwinkle, twinkle ...
If you're really bored ... Code: setlocal @echo off :: turn the cursor off echos ^e[?25l cls on break quit do forever set r=%@random[0,%@dec[%_rows]] set c=%@random[0,%@dec[%_columns]] :: @char[183] is...
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How does this work?
I can't figure out how this works but it manages to get an escape character into an environment variable in CMD.
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Setting the tab stops in the console
Below: At first the tab stops are 8 characters apart. ^eH sets a tab stop at the current column. So change them to 4 characters apart. There may be easier ways. This is in a console; it also works in...
View ArticleTCEdit the CLIPboard
While I have been using TCEDIT for making changes to the %_ininame and the %_tcstart files, and as a STDOUT editor (myfile.btm | TCEDIT) I just discovered that I can use TCEDIT to make changes to the...
View ArticleSCRIPT and DynamicWrapperX
Note that you will need to download and install a 64-bit COM DLL for this tip. Your anti-virus program will say that this is a virus/malware/destroyer of worlds, but it is not. I have tested this on...
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ZIP
ZIP will unzip the likes of Code: "Microsoft.WindowsTerminalPreview_1.6.10412.0_8wekyb3d8bbwe.msixbundle" Having done that, it will also unzip Code: "CascadiaPackage_1.6.10412.0_x64.msix" At least in...
View ArticleAligned PDIR listing of just LFN and DESCRIPTION
I was looking for a way to display only the LFN and DESCRIPTION of a file, with alignment. The VIEW command does this nicely, when it receives the output from PDIR via a pipe; Code: pdir /(f %@char[9]...
View ArticleAuto-Install TCMD upon Windows 10 Sandbox Logon
Here's how I auto-install TCMD into Windows 10 Sandbox upon Logon; Code: <Configuration> <MappedFolders> <MappedFolder> <HostFolder>E:\Downloads</HostFolder>...
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