prompt $W/$w not working in TCC 36.52?

[emarinus]

I am using TCC 36.52.87 (x64) on Windows 11 version 10.0.26200.9168.

In the TCC manual it says in the entry for the prompt command:

$W and $w behave like $P and $p for displaying upper/lower case.

I have not been able to get this distinction to work. Any pointers would be welcome.

 

[Charles Dye]

It's been a very long time, but.... I think that distinction applied to MS-DOS 8.3 filenames. Not to the long filenames which we've been using since 1995. Or earlier, if you were using Windows NT.

 

[vefatica]

Hmmm! $p gives lowercase; $w doesn't.

C:\Users\vefatica\AppData\Local\Package Cacheprompt $P$g

C:\Users\vefatica\AppData\Local\Package Cache>prompt $p$g

c:\users\vefatica\appdata\local\package cache>prompt $W$g

C:\...\Package Cache>prompt $w$g

C:\...\Package Cache>

 

[rconn]

The help is wrong (out of date). The lower case 'w' behavior was removed 20+ years ago. (It was for 4DOS and is meaningless with modern mixed-case filenames.)