Dos v5 label.exe won't work

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From: Forrest Gehrke,2C-119,7239,ATTBL
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1991 12:44

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I have a Gateway 386/33 running msdos 5.0.  I have noticed
that the request for a volume label which occurs after a
format does not actually get written to a diskette (although
no indication of that is given).  

Upon attempting to use label.exe I get the response
"Invalid Drive Specification".  I get this regardless
of syntax, i.e. just typing LABEL by itself will produce
this response, as well as any of the manual's additional
syntax instructions.

Norton's VOLABEL, however works.

Does anyone else have this experience, or is this specific
to my PC?  Any explanation?

Forrest Gehrke feg@dodger.att.com

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