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From: jearly@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU (John Early)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: Setting Volume Label: summary, solution
Message-ID: <969@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU>
Date: 4 Jun 90 22:17:59 GMT
References: <326sis-b@massey.ac.nz>
Organization: CSEE Dept. Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
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In-reply-to: E.Ireland@massey.ac.nz's message of 28 May 90 22:23:07 GMT

In article <326sis-b@massey.ac.nz> E.Ireland@massey.ac.nz (Evan Ireland) writes:
>   In my message of 24 April I asked how to go about setting the volume
>   label on a DOS formatted disk, and allowing it to contain `unusual'
>   characters.

[useful DOS tips omitted]

I missed this discussion.  Just wanted to say that the must useful
application of writing "unusual" characters is to imbed ANSI codes.
Unfortunately, IBM (in their infinite wisdom) allocated a mere 11
characters to play with.  On one of my PCs at work I changed my volume
label to be pink (on black; the rest of the DIR is lt.blue) but had to
hack command.com to change DIR so that it would reset the colors back.
John.

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