Total Commander Version 6.58, 16 Bit

[Sir_SiLvA]

Sorry if this post already exists in the "depths" of this forum I did not find it, neither with the forum search
(which doesnt like 6.58 as a search word) nor with google

So I was working on a side project of mine recently and noticed:
Image: https://i.postimg.cc/DyJx9k4b/Zwischenablage01.png

So, I looked at the file properties and it states:

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File Description	:  Total Commander 16 bit international version, file manager replacement for Windows
File Version	:  6.57
Internal Name	:  TOTALCMD
Legal Copyright	:  Copyright © 1993-2007 Christian Ghisler
Product Name	:  Total Commander
Product Version	:  6.57

So I searched this forum and came up with nothing, same goes for Google, looking at the TC WebSite
(btw still called wcmd.html instead of tcmd *g*) and I searched even the wiki but came up empty...

Any possibility of - no I am not expecting it to be able to understand RedirectSection - "updating" TC v6.58
to have at least the correct version information ?
(apart from the number Total Commander 6.58, released in April 2008 so
Copyright © 1993-2007 Christian Ghisler should be 8)

[petermad]

2Sir_SiLvA
I can confirm that TC 6.58 16bit has 6.58 in the title bar AND in the "Help" -> "About" dialog, but that the exe file's file version info shows 6.57.

The Copyright info in the "About" box also correctly shows 2008 and not 2007.

In the tcmd16.exe file I find both 6.58 and 6.57 strings - so apparently TC did not use the file-version info internally, but it's own constant. - I wonder if it still like that?

[Gral]

Also, note weird use of capital letters on about box:

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---------------------------
About Total Commander
---------------------------
Total Commander VERSion 6.58 16 bit (23.4.2008)

P.S. I just remembered - a thread from a german forum from last year
viewtopic.php?t=77281

[petermad]

Hmm that is not what I see: https://tcmd.madsenworld.dk/tc658about.png

The md5 checksum of my TCMD16.EXE is 9d7aee9b3240af4642421d458ce7db2c

[Gral]

Same checksum, bug in translation, after switch to English all is OK.

[Sir_SiLvA]

[strange looking tc about box]
P.S. I just remembered - a thread from a german forum from last year
viewtopic.php?t=77281

Sorry I dont see what a thread about win3.11 has to do with wrong
file version info stored in the tcmd16.exe?

Hmm that is not what I see: https://tcmd.madsenworld.dk/tc658about.png
The md5 checksum of my TCMD16.EXE is 9d7aee9b3240af4642421d458ce7db2c

I have the same box as petermad (except the name).

Yeah it looks like Mr. Ghisler just forgot to update the tcmd16.rc-file before compiling?

[Gral]

Sorry I dont see what a thread about win3.11 has to do with wrong
file version info stored in the tcmd16.exe?

Nothing. Slightly OT.
It's just about that some people would like further development of the 16-bit version.

[Sir_SiLvA]

It's just about that some people would like further development of the 16-bit version.

ah ok ! (the only thing i wish is that 6.58 would understand RedirectSection...)
but this thread is only about the fact that the file version information in tc 6.58, 16 bit is wrong

(same goes for the 32 bit version - thanks Petermad for your archive at https://madsenworld.dk/tcmd/ !)

[Sven_RR]

Hello
I wonder if the 16 bit version of Total Commander 6.58 supports Folder Tabs?
Sorry for highjacking the thread.

[hi5]

I wonder if the 16 bit version of Total Commander 6.58 supports Folder Tabs?

Looks like it

New in Total Commander 6.0 final (17.11.03):
[Tabs]
- File panel Tab support

Edit: I got the above from history.txt but that doesn't show specific 16bit info. See 16bit screenshot below, the answer is no it doesn't

[petermad]

I wonder if the 16 bit version of Total Commander 6.58 supports Folder Tabs?

No the 16bit version does not support folder tabs: https://tcmd.madsenworld.dk/tcmd16_658.png
But the 32bit version does: https://tcmd.madsenworld.dk/tcmd32_658.png


You can still get My extended menus for 16bit TC 6.58: https://madsenworld.dk/index-uk.htm?wincmd/index-uk.htm#tc16bit

[white]

No the 16bit version does not support folder tabs: https://tcmd.madsenworld.dk/tcmd16_658.png
But the 32bit version does: https://tcmd.madsenworld.dk/tcmd32_658.png

Makes sense since you would use 32-bit TC whenever you can, and only use 16-bit TC on Windows 3 without Win32s (which did not have tab controls in the OS).

[Sven_RR]

Thank you all for the response. I'm using the 16 bit version of TC in some OS/2 VM. (And fiddling with some code to make a tiny clone of TC for OS/2 )