Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site whuts.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!whuxl!whuts!2212msr From: 2212msr@whuts.UUCP (ROBIN) Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: Re: disk naming help wanted Message-ID: <349@whuts.UUCP> Date: Sat, 2-Nov-85 00:42:02 EST Article-I.D.: whuts.349 Posted: Sat Nov 2 00:42:02 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Nov-85 05:41:20 EST References: <949@loral.UUCP> <320@ukc.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 30 > > Something about disk labelling. > > It is fairly easy to write a program to label a disk (they abound on > BBSs and I have one I can post if it is really required). No, MS-DOS > doesn't seem to include one in the normal release; probably because > there are problems (I think due to a bug (yes, another one)) in MS-DOS. > > The way you label a disk is to create a directory entry (in the root > directory) with the 'volume label' bit set. This is fairly > easy. However, if you change the label later on (by either removing it > completely or by deleting it then creating a new one) the chances are > you will trash a few files. The behaviour of MS-DOS in this area is > *weird*. I can see no rhyme or reason for the mess that is made of the > disk (something like the first eight FAT entries are trashed). > > What's more, it isn't even an unsupported feature; it's actually in the > manual so Microsoft haven't got that cop-out this time. Still, it > wouldn't do to produce reliable software all the time - would it? > -- > Bob Eager > > rde@ukc.UUCP > rde@ukc > ...!mcvax!ukc!rde > > Phone: +44 227 66822 ext 7589 *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE *** DOS 3.0 includes disk label function, whic appears to work correctly!