> 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.)
>

And the second one returns "Bad command or file name", when run from a 
DOS6.1 boot floppy, so it doesn't have much to do with DOS either.  (Not 
that I was expecting it to work...)

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