Thanks for the solution! I made it file-specific (/a:-d), tried it, and found something interesting.... It doesn't seem to work with files with % in the name. I guess that's not surprising. I hate those files. My personal solution was sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo...

I just came here to try to find a way to set an environment variable to a filename that starts with % 30 yrs using this command line and i just can't, haha

but yea, basically I was using: set FIRST_FILE=%@FINDFIRST[%MASK%] And I guess, misunderstanding what FINDFIRST actually does.

How perceptive. I do believe you are correct and this is a matter of misshapen intent or misunderstanding on my part. Basically, I'm trying to do the equivalent of clicking the first image file in the folder. The one that the "tab" would filename-complete to (assuming all images are executable...

I guess... which code page should i switch to? I know about the utility to do so and have played with it before, i just never reached a happy place.

I believe the filenames are Japanese. (The example I chose was a set of anime soundtracks.)

OMG thank you for such a quick response! Even though I've been using this command line since the NDOS.COM days in 1988, I'm actually still not sure precisely what this question is asking. It's a TCC.exe window. The window has a title bar that can be clicked for options, and the options has a...

So.... What is the procedure for getting this fixed, anyway? Is my post here sufficient, or do I need to make an official bug report or something?

It took me awhile to build up to finding this error. I gradually started maintaining environment variables for different kinds of files; it has made life easier. I'm just sharing this part for pure fun. The order is approximately from least complex kind of file to most complex kind...

I came here for the perl solution. It appears to be, "type option, uncheck perl, restart TCMD - don't believe it's lies about applies!" ;)

I have a machine with v15 and a machine where a v19 trial was attempted. Ran into bug immediately - Am running script that collects all images and videos into a single filelist. I use environment variables for my filemasks.... So: dir /b %FILEMASK_IMAGE%;%FILEMASK_VIDEO% >filelist.txt Which...

The enter key thing was user error - apparently, after hitting Windows-D to peek at desktop, and hitting it again to restore - in my case, focus granted to the TCC is not enough for typing to reach it. I must actually alt-tab back into it - mouse-clicking it is no longer good enough. Of course...

I've also been getting errors where the enter key doesn't work. It works fine. I walk away. I come back. It doesn't work. Every other key works. The enter key simply produces a beep. I have to re-open a new window. All this happened when I upgraded from 5.x to 12.x, but hey, what are we up to...

I put CPU usage into my prompt :)

I actually don't use the tabs. I'm sorry I didn't catch what was meant by tab when it was first mentioned in this discussion, but I didn't know that's what they were talking about because I never use tabs. My control keys work. I use them a lot. No key is mapped. I mentioned that already...