Am 07.03.2013 07:50, schrieb Patrick Elliott:

>> More like, "Because lazy". You can name drives under DOS, I think you
>> could even do so with a floppy, but then your application has to
>> "manually" check to make sure that the name is the same, since they a)
>> never added a way to reference, as far as I know, the drive name as a
>> means to write to it, and b) the OS doesn't check if the name changed on
>> its own, as far as I am aware.
>
> Of course, there is a bloody stupid "DOS" way to do it:
>
>
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/47849/refer-to-select-a-drive-based-only-on-its-label-i-e-not-the-drive-letter

Interestingly, the top answer has /nothing/ to do with DOS whatsoever. 
(Except of course for the raw fact that drive letters and drive labels 
are a DOS legacy, and the author chose to call his visual basic script a 
"bat file" for apparently nostalgic reasons.)

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