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to: Kevin Klement
from: Andrew Leary
date: 2009-10-06 21:22:18
subject: MS-DOS 6.22

Hello Kevin.

29 Sep 09 14:51, you wrote to mark lewis:

 >> no, not IIRC... disk labels are always 11 (10??) characters

 KK> Is it 10 or 11 characters? I thought I read somewhere it's 11.

It is 11 characters.  A volume label is just a directory entry (8.3) with a 
flag set indicating that it is a volume label, not a filename.

Andrew

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