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ASSOCIATE loses /P option

Charles Dye

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Code:
C:\>ver

TCC  26.00.24 x64   Windows 10 [Version 10.0.17763.973]

C:\>associate .foo=foonly.exe /p "%%1"

C:\>associate .foo
.foo=foonly.exe  "%1"

C:\>regdir /d /v hkcr\foofile
hkcr\foofile
  SHELL
    OPEN
      COMMAND
         : REG_SZ : foonly.exe  "%1"

C:\>

FTYPE /P works as expected.
 
It loses "/v" too, and can give a delete error when "/d" is part of the associated command line.

Code:
v:\> associate .foo=dummy.exe /d /f /p /r /u /v "%%1"

v:\> associate .foo
.foo=dummy.exe /d /f  /r /u  "%1"

v:\> associate .foo=dummy.exe /d /f /p /r /u /v "%%1"
TCC: Can't delete ".foo"
 
This still happens. The help says ASSOCIATE "allows you to ... modify ...". WAD?

Code:
v:\> associate .foo=dummy1.exe "%%1"

v:\> associate .foo=dummy2.exe "%%1"
TCC: Can't delete ".foo"
 

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