Re: How to read thumb drive volume label

[carolus <worwor at bellsouth dot net>]

On 3/14/2011 4:55 PM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
> carolus sent the following at Monday, March 14, 2011 1:05 PM
> > I didn't realize that the output of dir depended on whether it was
> > invoked from cygwin or from cmd, and I didn't know about label.exe.
>
> dir does not differ depending on from where it is invoked.

I didn't realize cygwin had its own "dir" until seeing that the DOS 
"dir" reported the volume label.

> As for label.exe, to know about it, one has be old enough to have run
> MS-DOS.
I'm old enough to have stacked the compiler deck, the program deck, and 
the data deck to dump it all in the card reader. But I never paid 
attention to volume labels before setting out to install linux to a 
thumb drive and wanting to make doubly sure I was not overwriting my 
system disk.

> (Personally, I think that running DESQview386 under DOS 3.3 was better
> than any version of Windows, just as some people on this list wax
> nostalgic for B20 and version 1.5.)  :-)

I never thought much of DESQview or of Windows either.  At that time I 
used to telnet from DOS 3.3 to a Unix box, and was happier in Unix. It 
took less than a day to switch to Cygwin, with hardly any difference 
from the real Unix. Before that I was using the MKS Toolkit on my DOS or 
Windows desktop, which was nice software, but not as complete an 
emulation as Cygwin.






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