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Article #615Re: Setting Volume Label: summary, solution
From: John Early
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 1990 22:17
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 1990 22:17
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In article <326sis-b@massey.ac.nz> E.Ireland@massey.ac.nz (Evan Ireland) writes: > In my message of 24 April I asked how to go about setting the volume > label on a DOS formatted disk, and allowing it to contain `unusual' > characters. [useful DOS tips omitted] I missed this discussion. Just wanted to say that the must useful application of writing "unusual" characters is to imbed ANSI codes. Unfortunately, IBM (in their infinite wisdom) allocated a mere 11 characters to play with. On one of my PCs at work I changed my volume label to be pink (on black; the rest of the DIR is lt.blue) but had to hack command.com to change DIR so that it would reset the colors back. John. John Early | jearly@lehi3b15.csee.lehigh.edu | I was just a child then; JPE1@Lehigh.Bitnet | now I'm only a man. [pf] LUJPE@VAX1.cc.lehigh.edu |
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!netnews.upenn.edu!vax1.cc.lehigh.edu!vlsi3b15!lehi3b15!jearly From: jearly@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU (John Early) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer Subject: Re: Setting Volume Label: summary, solution Message-ID: <969@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU> Date: 4 Jun 90 22:17:59 GMT References: <326sis-b@massey.ac.nz> Organization: CSEE Dept. Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA Lines: 19 In-reply-to: E.Ireland@massey.ac.nz's message of 28 May 90 22:23:07 GMT