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>>>>> "TE" == Tooraj Enayati <tooraj@daneel.rdt.monash.edu.au> writes:

TE> jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris) writes:

>ianst@qdpii.ind.dpi.qld.gov.au (Ian Staples) writes:

>>I found this by accident, the following sequence of commands was
>>deliberately used to confirm the bug (note: assumes PROMPT is $p$g):

>>cd \				;get yourself into the drive root
>>md xyz				;make a directory, any name will do
>>cd xyz				;get into it
>>md xyz				;make a subdirectory with the same name
>>				;but *don't* change into it
>>label a: abcdefgh		;any legal name will do - you *do* have
>>				;a disk in drive a: don't you?  ;-)

>>Now have a close look at your prompt - if you have the bug too, it
>>will read C:\XYZ\XYZ> instead of the expected C:\XYZ> 

>Cute!  I just confirmed it; I'm running MS-DOS 6.2 (US flavor).

TE> I got it happening too. But I am using MS-DOS 5.0!  So I guess this
TE> bug has been with us for at least 3 major releases. Can any 3.2 and
TE> 4.0/1 users try to recreate the bug?

No problems under MS-DOS 4.01 -- my guess is that the bug was introduced in
5.0, since that's when the user interface was changed to allow entering the
label name on the command line.  I wonder, just how many other FCB-based
DOS utilities might exhibit the same problem?

Regards,

Gary
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