Path: utzoo!attcan!ncrcan!ziebmef!stephen
From: stephen@ziebmef.uucp (Stephen M. Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: the MS-DOS volume label
Summary: Read and set with extended FCB calls
Keywords: info
Message-ID: <1989Jul10.191412.26454@ziebmef.uucp>
Date: 10 Jul 89 23:14:09 GMT
References: <8002@bsu-cs.bsu.edu> <1676@neoucom.UUCP>
Reply-To: stephen@ziebmef.UUCP (Stephen M. Dunn)
Organization: Ziebmef Public Access Unix, Toronto, Ontario
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   The volume label may or may not be at the start of the directory.  It
is placed just like any other filename is placed - in the first available
filename entry in the directory.  If you LABEL your disk immediately after
formatting it, it will be the first thing (if you didn't FORMAT/S) or it will
come immediately after the DOS files (if you did).

   You can use the extended FCB calls to read and set the volume label.  Look
it up in one of Peter Norton's books.
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