From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: __file_tree_walk - what is attrib 'V' ??
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On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Damian Yerrick wrote:

> Oh, so that's why I can never change the label of a floppy that has
> been used in a Windows 9x system.

What program did you use to change the label?

It *is* possible to change the label on such floppies, but the program
should be careful about skipping the LFN entries and finding the entry
which has *only* the volume attribute (and possibly also the archive
bit) set.