Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site microsoft.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!decvax!harpo!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!microsoft!markz From: markz@microsoft.UUCP (Mark Zbikowski) Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: RE: DOS FindFirst/FindNext Message-ID: <8777@microsoft.UUCP> Date: Mon, 19-Aug-85 12:52:06 EDT Article-I.D.: microsof.8777 Posted: Mon Aug 19 12:52:06 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 23-Aug-85 06:57:49 EDT Organization: Microsoft Corporation Lines: 10 > I have a Turbo program and a Desmet C program which does INT 21 > function 4E and 4F calls (Search First and Search Next)...However, > when reading the floppy, the volume label is > never found. The built-in command DIR finds the floppy volume > label just fine so I know it is there. I am running PC-DOS 2.1. > Why does it work for the hard disk and not the floppy??? Any > info would be appreciated. This is due to a bug in 2.*. The DIR command uses an FCB to search for the VID. This bug is fixed in 3.0.