label.c man page - (nf)
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LABEL(1) MS-DOS PROGRAMMER'S MANUAL LABEL(1)
NAME
label - alter the volume label of a disk
SYNOPSYS
label newlabel [d]
DESCRIPTION
Changes the label on the specified drive "d", or on the
default drive if d is not specified, to "newlabel". If the disk
already had a label, the time and date of that label are retained.
Note that volume labels are always exactly eleven characters long.
Longer labels are truncated; shorter ones are padded with blanks.
MESSAGES
There are three error messages:
label: newlabel [d]
is issued when no arguments, or too many, are supplied.
label: illegal drive specifier
is issued when the second argument is not in (A-Z, a-z).
label: cannot create new label
is issued when the "create file" bdos function returns an
error code.
BUGS
Because the label is created as a file with the "label"
attribute ON, the name is converted (by MS-DOS) to upper case.
Only the first character of the "drive" argument is
used/checked.
As noted, the time/date stamp on the label is NOT updated if
the volume had a label before. This may not be a bug, actually:
it tells you when this disk was last checked for bad sectors.
LABEL(1) MS-DOS PROGRAMMER'S MANUAL LABEL(1)
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