TC + %PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE% + Win9X

[MaxX]

Confirmed for 9.22a and actual 9.5 betas. Older versions may be affected too, did not test them.

Win9X: TC does not support %PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE% variable for programs' paths in wincmd.ini.
Error: Path not found.

WinXP/7/10: TC supports %PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE% variable for programs' paths in wincmd.ini,
but does not support %PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE:~3,2% there.

Bug or feature?
Could you fix that?

[petermad]

Win 9x does only come in 32bit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Microsoft_Windows - so I guess %PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE% is not supported by Windows. Have you checked with the DOS SET command, that there is a %PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE% in yor win9x environment?

but does not support %PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE:~3,2% there.

This is a known limitation:
https://www.ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=45194&p=314727&hilit=%25PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE%3A~#p314727

[ghisler(Author)]

Win9X: TC does not support %PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE% variable for programs' paths in wincmd.ini.

%PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE% is an environment variable defined by Windows, NOT by Total Commander. It's not defined on all Windows versions.

[MaxX]

I understand.
What about %PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE:~3,2% for XP and newer?

[Dalai]

2MaxX
What about it? A syntax like this is specific to CMD, and TC doesn't support it, and IIRC Ghisler said somewhere that it won't support it in the future.

Regards
Dalai

[petermad]

2Dalai

IIRC Ghisler said somewhere that it won't support it in the future.

Actually he said he would put it on his to-do list: https://www.ghisler.ch/board/viewtopic.php?p=320433#p320433

Also several workarounds in that thread.

[ghisler(Author)]

What about %PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE:~3,2% for XP and newer?

I will add it to the next beta, thanks for reminding me.

[petermad]

history.txt:

25.11.19 Added: Support substrings from environment variables, e.g. %variable:~2,3% skips 2 characters and then keeps 3. Negative variables are counted from the back of the string (32/64)

I can confirm that a parameter like %PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE:~3,2% now works in the command field for buttons, and em_commands in TC 9.5b7

[MaxX]

Editor=%COMMANDER_PATH%\Plugins\exe\AkelPad%PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE:~3,2%.exe
Looks like it works on Win 7 SP1 x32. Later I want to test on x64.
Such a good feature. I'm glad.

 

%PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE% is an environment variable defined by Windows, NOT by Total Commander. It's not defined on all Windows versions.

Could you add some config parameter to skip %PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE% and(or) %PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE:~3,2% in wincmd.ini on Win9X? Just via something like "SkipProcArch=1" or similar.
I mean that %COMMANDER_PATH%\Plugins\exe\AkelPad%PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE:~3,2%.exe becomes "C:\Totalcmd\Plugins\exe\AkelPad.exe" for Win9X, not the "C:\Totalcmd\Plugins\exe\AkelPad%PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE:~3,2%.exe". That allows us to have only Akelpad.exe and Akelpad64.exe and one config line for all OS.
That would be great.

[ghisler(Author)]

Why not just set PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE yourself as a custom environment variable in Windows 9x?

[MaxX]

Hm.. Did not think this way.
Thanks.

[MaxX]

Later I want to test on x64.

Checked, x64 works fine.