From: Damian Yerrick <MYNAMEISd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comNO2CANNEDHAM>
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Subject: Re: __file_tree_walk - what is attrib 'V' ??
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Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 13:49:50 GMT
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On Tue, 15 Feb 2000 09:47:13 +0200, Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
wrote:

>
>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?

the shell 'command' from DOS 6.22

>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.

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