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Name: Adam Date: April 17, 2002 at 22:46:29 Pacific
Comment:
Hey, I'm wondering if there's a way I could set the volume label of a drive as a variable. Is this at all possible? Thanks!
Name: Secret_Doom Date: April 18, 2002 at 10:55:45 Pacific
Reply:
This should do it, at least on Win9x:
:: Get volume label to %vol% @echo off if "%1"=="GoTo:" %1%2 (Subroutine handler) :: ASCII Assembler by Laura Fairhead ECHO XPYP[*'CC-\1P\QX,=P,APZ5O!PQ2O~5aaI~}Ksx>%temp%.\echos.com %temp%.\echos.com SET VOL=> %temp%.\temp.bat VOL |FIND " " |FIND/v "-" >> %temp%.\temp.bat call %temp%.\temp.bat call %0 GoTo: setvol %vol% if exist %temp%.\temp.bat del %temp%.\temp.bat if exist %temp%.\echos.com del %temp%.\echos.com goto eof :setvol set vol=%1 shift if not "%1"=="" goto setvol :eof
Watch out for line wrapping!
-- Secret_Doom - Leonardo Pigntaro --
secret_doom@hotmail.com www.batch.hpg.com.br
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Response Number 2
Name: B. Gates Date: April 19, 2002 at 13:32:08 Pacific
Reply:
Didn't work, but this one does: http://life.homepage.dk/batfiles/main/batfaq2.htm#55
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Response Number 3
Name: Secret_Doom Date: April 20, 2002 at 10:12:48 Pacific
Reply:
B. Gates, what do you mean by "didn't work"? Have you actually tested it, and are you actually on Win9x? The label will be saved on %vol% and will NOT be echoed to screen (nobody said it should do so).
If you are running the batch in a child shell, obviously you won't be able to see the %vol% variable in the parent shell.
Have you actually tested it? It's just too easy to say "didn't work".
-- Secret_Doom - Leonardo Pignataro --
secret_doom@hotmail.com www.batch.hpg.com.br
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Response Number 4
Name: Secret_Doom Date: April 20, 2002 at 10:45:10 Pacific
Reply:
BTW, that script has been tested under Win95 (in english) AND under Win98 (in portuguese).
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