Uppercased drive letter in Lister (not only for unpacked files)

[Usher]

By default TC uses lowercase drive letters. You can see for example in the Lister title bar after pressing F3, something like:

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c:\Temp\test.jpg

However, when you want to view files packed in zip, 7z, rar etc. TC unpackes them to %TEMP% subfolder and Lister always shows drive letter uppercased - just as it is saved in %TEMP% variable, something like:
in Windows XP

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C:\DOCUME~1\USER\LOCALS~1\TEMP\_tc\test.jpg

in newer systems

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C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Temp\_tc\test.jpg

You can see such differences saved in [LastTracks] section in wincmd.ini, when playing packed multimedia files in Lister.

[ghisler(Author)]

DrivesShowUpcase is currently not used in Lister. I will consider it.

[ghisler(Author)]

This should be fixed in TC 10.51 RC1, please test it.

[petermad]

This should be fixed in TC 10.51 RC1, please test it.

Sorry - DrivesShowUpcase=0 has no effect in Lister's Title bar when opening files inside archives.

Tested with TC 10.51rc1 32bit and 64bit under WIndows 7 and 10 - also with a fresh ini file.

But DrivesShowUpcase does now have effect when opening a separate instance of Lister by using the /S=L command line parameter.

[ghisler(Author)]

Sorry - DrivesShowUpcase=0 has no effect in Lister's Title bar when opening files inside archives.

Confirmed - that's not one of the cases I tried. Any others?

[petermad]

Any others?

Well not exactly the same but if I open a file on a Windows Workgroup Network using the "Show administrative shares" the Server name part of the path is all capitalized. But if I open a named share it si not captalized.

[ghisler(Author)]

The file lists are not affected by DrivesShowUpcase. The same as you observe also happens when you open the "Computer" virtual folder. This is intentional.

[Usher]

This should be fixed in TC 10.51 RC1, please test it.

Nothing has changed for unpacked files. And it's broken now for other files when viewed with Lister.

Real case - TC started with default settings, viewing its own file and folder:

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c:\TotalCmd\DEFAULT.BAR
c:\TotalCmd\

32-bit TC shows in Lister:

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c:\TotalCmd\dEFAULT.BAR
c:\totalCmd\

64-bit TC shows in Lister:

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C:\TotalCmd\dEFAULT.BAR
C:\totalCmd\

As you can see, 64-bit Lister always uppercases drive letter, and both versions revert case of the first character in the last path element.

[ghisler(Author)]

Yes, I changed the upper-/lowercase character in the wrong place, so it only worked when a path+file name was passed to Lister, not when they were passed separately as it is the case for example for archives.

[petermad]

2Usher

32-bit TC shows in Lister:

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c:\TotalCmd\dEFAULT.BAR
c:\totalCmd\

64-bit TC shows in Lister:

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C:\TotalCmd\dEFAULT.BAR
C:\totalCmd\

Hmm, here it shows the same in 32bit and 64bit:

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c:\TotalCmd\dEFAULT.BAR
c:\totalCmd\

[Usher]

I can provide a screenshot taken yesterday in Windows 7: tc1051-noUpcase.png. You can see default lister background (white color, while I keep bright yellow color in the working wincmd.ini). I'm not sure what ini has been used then as today I cannot reproduce those results, but I'm sure that "DrivesShowUpcase" is absent in all ini files.
It looks like drive letter is randomly uppercased, here's a screenshot from today, taken with working wincmd.ini: tc1051-randomUpcase.png - it's always lower case for drive c: and Upper case for drive D:
TC run with a fresh ini shows both lower case c: and d:.

[petermad]

I just tried all my drives (A,C,D,E,F,G,H,Z) and the setting of DrivesShowUpcase is honored in Listers title bar for all of them with TC 10.51rc1 x64 on Windows 7. https://madsenworld.dk/tcmd/listerdriveletter.png

I also noticed that when using DrivesShowUpcase=1 the first letter of the file name is always in uppercase (just like it is always in lowercase with DrivesShowUpcase=0). Removing DrivesShowUpcase from the ini file gives the same results as DrivesShowUpcase=0 - as it should.

[Usher]

Here's a screenshot from Windows XP with working wincmd.ini and no DrivesShowUpcase present: tc1051-randomUpcaseXP.png.
As you can see, this time drive C: is Uppercased, drive d: and other drives are lowercased. Language English internal, wincmd.ini in UTF-16 (the same was for working wincmd.ini in Windows 7). Clean ini shows all drives lowercased in Windows XP (EDIT: both ANSI and UTF-16 ini).

[petermad]

2Usher
Hmm, tried in my Windows XP with a Unicode ini file: https://madsenworld.dk/tcmd/listerdriveletterXP.png

Still lowercase drive letter in Lister, but my Windows XP is 32 bit, and you say you only experience it with 64bit TC so I guess your XP is 64 bit?

I get the same for my c: drive, and I only have c: and d: drive on under my XP computer.

Sorry for asking this, but you don't show TC's title bar in your screenshots, are you sure you are running TC 10.51rc1?

[Usher]

Random drive letter upper case is for both TC 32- and 64-bit in Windows 7 and for TC 32-bit in XP. It's definitely TC 10.51rc1 - see lowercased first letter of directory or filename? TC 10.50 in Windows XP shows C:\IO.SYS (all uppercased) and d:\IO.SYS (d: and other drives properly lowercased).