X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: carolus Subject: Re: How to read thumb drive volume label Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 22:57:04 -0500 Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: <4D7E200C.40707@bellsouth.net> <0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A209DAA1008C@NIHMLBX02.nih.gov> <0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A209DAA10090@NIHMLBX02.nih.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.14) Gecko/20110221 Thunderbird/3.1.8 In-Reply-To: <0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A209DAA10090@NIHMLBX02.nih.gov> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com 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. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple