Re: Problem with GetVolumeInformation

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From: Sam Mildener
Date: Sun, 04 May 2003 18:00

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hpl wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I do have a problem with the win32-function GetVolumeInformation.
> With the following line I try to get the VolumeLabel from my CD-ROM
> D:-Drive;
> char vlabel [32]; //* buffer for VolumeLabel
> unsigned int vlabellength;
> GetVolumeLabel ("D:\\", vlabel, vlabellength, NULL, NULL, NULL,NULL)
>
> Nevertheless I always get
> a) nonsens in vlabel and
> b) a totally irrelevant length of the buffer vlabel?
>
> What is going wrong here?

Please ignore my previous message (I was confusing GetVolumeLabel with
something else).

Here's the modification needed:

unsigned int vlabellength=32;


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Sam Mildener

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