Take Command Reinvents the Windows Console and CMD.EXE

Take Command http://jpsoft.com
Take Command is the ultimate Windows console and CMD.EXE replacement. Take Command includes tabbed windows, an advanced Windows command line, and batch file programming with an integrated IDE and debugger. The Take Command command language includes more than 170 internal commands, and over 450 built-in variables.

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[rexcconn]

I think you're missing the point. If you have trivial command line needs, CMD may well suffice.

If you need more capability, TCC (the CMD-equivalent in Take Command) offers 170+ commands and 450+ internal variables, and loads in 0.07 seconds.

The tabbed-window environment of Take Command isn't intended to be loaded repeatedly -- you would load it once at startup, and then start & quit your command line windows as necessary. Take Command loads in about 2.5 seconds on a mid range system.

[annihilannic]

4DOS rocked.  :-)

[PowerackX82]

Shit program...

[lansd3]

As occurs throughout forums, some of the comments posted are very short sighted, mainly due to people who actually don't use TCC. I can't live with using TCC and I am not associated with JP Soft at all. I've been one of their core users since it first came to market. The way I look at TCC is as a super-charged front end to my command-level processing. I combine it with all my Cygwin and UNIX-like tools. It has a b'zillion commands. Fortunately It has a huge user base who do not openly complain.

[GitarStu]

Been using this since it was 4DOS in about 88. Haven't had a computer without it in over 20 years. Still do 90% of my admin work in a command prompt super chagred by TC :)

[gruntlover2]

Err software like this needs to be free and open source. This is why I hate windows, you don't see dicks trying to sell shitty software that is already been made for free on *nix systems (well excluding Mac)

[Rex Conn]

Take Command is three components - a replacement for the awful Windows console, a replacement for the awful(er) CMD command processor, and an IDE / batch debugger for creating & debugging Windows scripts.

Cygwin uses the same awful Windows console and lacks the batch debugger. It does provide a better (albeit totally incompatible) command processor. (At least compared to CMD; it doesn't fare as well compared to the command processor in Take Command.)

[Vegard Berg]

Or you could just use Cygwin.

[Csep Levente]

Good job.Visit my chanel for advanced tutorials

[minetastical101]

cool program but its nit worth buying AT ALL you think people are going to pay money for a ide that uses the least used programming language?

[stdxytb]

LE - Light Edition? What are absent in TCC/LE that are present in TCC ?

[Rex Conn]

No, TCC/LE is free, but Take Command (and the full edition of TCC, which is included with Take Command) is not.