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From: gtoye@supernet.dallas.haus.com (Gene Toye)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: DOS 4.0 Volume Serial Numbers
Message-ID: <1991Mar5.192547.10710@supernet.dallas.haus.com>
Date: 5 Mar 91 19:25:47 GMT
References: <12818@hubcap.clemson.edu> <1991Mar5.033219.369@nuchat.sccsi.com> <8105@chorus.fr>
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mir@opera.chorus.fr (Adam Mirowski) writes:

>In article <1991Mar5.033219.369@nuchat.sccsi.com>, paul@nuchat.sccsi.com (Paul Hutmacher) writes:
>%% In article <12818@hubcap.clemson.edu> chrisb@hubcap.clemson.edu (Chris 
>%% Behrens) writes:
>%% >Is there a way to access these ??  Or is there a way to change them ??
>%% 
>%% And while we're at it, what the hell are they for?

My understanding is that they came about mostly for OS/2 and were added to
DOS 4.0 for compatability.  They are needed in OS/2 to deal with multitasking
since you might remove the diskette while another program was using it.  OS/2
couldn't ask for the disk by the "normal" LABEL since uniqueness is not
guaranteed.
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