i typed the command properly and it worked a single time. the next 5 tries i press enter i get no error, but no decals are shown from image being split.

I assume you mean TGAToTiles

The output of TGAToTiles is always decal000.tga upwards. So if it produced these files the first time, it'll be overwriting them on subsequent runs.

Move TGSToTiles and the canvas TGA file into a new/empty folder and try again.

ya, deleted the old files. so it should have no problem. but to be safe i moved to a new folder area, still nothing. im out of ideas.

Make sure the folder paths used don't have spaces in the folder names. Some (my) command line toolz don't work with folders that contain spaces.

that was a problem. but i moved it to another folder, still nothing.