From: ad354 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (James Owens)
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Subject: Re: InfoZIP vol label: force it, but please advise
Date: 8 Nov 2000 19:28:11 GMT
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"Eli Zaretskii" (eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il) writes:

> . . . Try printing every value inside isfloppy, that might
> give a clue.  Or throw together a simple test program which just calls
> isfloppy on a drive of your choice, and see what that does.

Throw together? I don't even remember how to use printf!  It would take me
an hour just to figure out all that #include and *struct and #define stuff
that you need to float a C program.

I compiled the unmodified source under Win98 and I get different
behaviour. It will label the diskette without truncating, but only if the
diskette is not already labelled (that gets "error setting volume label".)
The same executable under OS/2 truncates the label, but doesn't mind if
the diskette is already labelled.  Augh! 

> Don't give up.  It always gets worse before it gets better ;-)

Thanks for the encouragement, and what you say is true.  It's just that I
don't really have the time for this increasingly Quixotic pursuit of the
perfect SFX solution for our customers.  They'll just have to label the
damn diskette themselves!

I'll chip away at it in my spare time. %-)  Thanks again.
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                                     James Owens  ad354 AT Freenet DOT carleton DOT ca
                                     Ottawa, Ontario, Canada