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Subject: Re: Questions about Disk Volume Labels?
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Date: Mon, 25-May-87 16:08:00 EDT
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>	Theory:
>	   A volume label is only a file with a special Attribute bit set
>	   and can therefore be written and read as a file.

According to IBMs technical reference about DOS you're right.
The attribute for the volume label is 08H.
You can used this with function 4EH (find first file) in the root
of the drive you're examining.
The  mentioned function call was discussed earlier in this newsgroup,
so I won't go into more details.

Gerhard Pehland
Quantec Tonstudiotechnik GmbH
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