Test: New installer for beta versions

[DrShark]

That's actually a feature of the installer! If there is an underscore in the name, it will look for the inf file with that name after the underscore!

I see, it looks like it was not documented.

The correct name for beta 3 would be:
totalcmdbetainst_tcbeta3.exe

Is it OK that with a name totalcmdbetainst_tcbeta<nothing or any number>.exe it offers only TC 9.50 beta 2 for downloading here?

And shouldn't the name like totalcmdbetainst_(<whatever>.exe (with left parenthesis after underscore) then also make it show "Version not available!" error instead of offering latest available beta?

[ghisler(Author)]

It downloads the tcbeta3.inf from www.ghisler.com/install. This is used for older TC versions, so there is no tcbeta8.inf right now.

[DrShark]

It downloads the tcbeta3.inf from www.ghisler.com/install.

Maybe it should... But, I downloaded tcbeta3.inf to compare offline and online install, and that's what happens here:

1) the result of starting offline install by launching totalcmdbetainst_tcbeta3.exe tcbeta3.inf is:
offer to install TC 9.50 beta 3
which is expected.

2) the result of starting online install by launching just totalcmdbetainst_tcbeta3.exe is:
* offer to install TC 9.50 beta 2.
which is unexpected because beta 2 is offered instead of beta 3.

3) the result of starting offline install by launching totalcmdbetainst_(tcbeta3.exe tcbeta3.inf is:
* offer to install TC 9.50 beta 3
which is expected.

4) the result of starting online install by launching just totalcmdbetainst_(tcbeta3.exe is:
* offer to install TC 9.50 beta 8
which is unexpected, it would be expected to get "Version not available!" error instead because the file "(tcbeta3.exe" doesn't exist on ghisler.ch server.

[ghisler(Author)]

Ah, you are right - numbers are ignored after the underscore, so it gets tcbeta.inf. This is done because some browsers add (2), (3) etc to the name when downloading a file multiple times.

[DrShark]

Ah, you are right - numbers are ignored after the underscore, so it gets tcbeta.inf. This is done because some browsers add (2), (3) etc to the name when downloading a file multiple times.

Browsers usually add some character(s) between name and following number. You could also use full inf name (with extension), like totalcmdbetainst_tcbeta3.inf.exe, for this feature.