From: "Colin W. Glenn" <cwg01 AT gnofn DOT org>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Displaying volumename in prompt
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 23:09:41 -0600
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On Sun, 22 Dec 1996, John M. Aldrich wrote:
> > Using the volume name in place of the idiotic C: designator would please
> > me no end.  Assuming we are all playing some flavor of MSDOS (why djgpp
> > otherwise?), one of us, some of us or all of us ought to write shell.com
> > to replace (and eliminate for all time) COMMAND.COM forever.
> 
> Shouldn't SMARTDRV in read cache mode eliminate the time needed to
> search the volume label?

if enough operations occur to require SMARTDRV to flush the buffer...