Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!watdragon!dahlia!swklassen
From: swklassen@dahlia.waterloo.edu (Steven W. Klassen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Volume labels on hard drives
Message-ID: <15743@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Date: 8 Aug 89 16:40:25 GMT
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In article <1062@philmds.UUCP> leo@philmds.UUCP (Leo de Wit) writes:
>
>Using the Fattrib() call of GEMDOS you can make an ordinary file into a
>volume label. It's even worse: you can make it into a directory that is
>not really a directory (it doesn't have the . and .. entries, and you
>can't put files into it, but it _looks_ like a directory, since it has
>a 'mode' of 0x10).
>

Thanks.  I looked this function call up in my docs and it looks like
it will do what I need.  I don't know how I missed this when I
was searching before my initial posting.


PS.  I would still like a good sector editor if anyone out there
     has one.


Steven W. Klassen
Computer Science Major
University of Waterloo