Uncle Carl's Famous Volume Labeler August 27, 1993 (C) Carl J. Hafner - ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Version 1.01 FREEWARE ! DISCLAIMER -~-~-~-~-~ The author cannot be responsible for ANY damage to your equipment, other software or hardware products, or physical or mental well being caused by the use, misuse, abuse or inability to use this program. The author also makes NO guarantee as to the compatibility of this program with other software or hardware products. Using this program means that you COMPLETELY understand AND agree with these terms AND agree to accept FULL responsibility for ANY and ALL events arising from the implementation of this program. If you do NOT understand AND agree, DO NOT use this program ! DISTRIBUTION -~-~-~-~-~-~ You are free to copy and distribute this program as long as the files VOLUME .PRG VOLUME .TXT OTHERTTL.TXT NEWTERMS.TXT are included, are NOT modified in ANY way and NO FEE of ANY TYPE is incurred upon the recipient for the files _themselves_. Although this program is FREEWARE, it is NOT Public Domain. It STILL remains the property of the author, but there is NO FEE to use it ! PLEASE SUPPORT SHAREWARE -~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~ Alot of other Shareware authors have expressed their dismay in the Shareware concept. It seems alot of people obtain or download Shareware programs and use them without sending in their Shareware contribution. If this trend continues many Shareware authors will need to distribute their programs through a middle-man. You will then need to pay commercial prices for these programs, instead of the low Shareware contribution. Only YOUR support will keep Shareware alive ! HOW TO USE VOLUME LABELER -~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~- Okay...so what exactly IS the Volume name..? When you click on a floppy icon from the GEM desktop and select FORMAT from the drop-down menu a box appears. You have the option now of entering an identifying name for the disk before formatting it. What you are REALLY doing is entering a file name. The "filename" IS the volume name (which is why the Volume name looks like a filename ie: VOLUME.DSK). This file is then "attributed" by turning it's "Volume Label" bit (0x08) ON. I bet you knew that already. Okay...enough history lesson... Why this program then..? Because GEM only allows you to change this name when formatting a disk. Say you formatted a disk with the Volume name WORDS.DOC and filled it with word processor documents. Later on you decide that DOCUMENT. would be a better name. Well, the only way to change this with GEM would be to reformat a new disk with this new name and copy all of these files to THAT disk. Yeccch ! Also...if you are using a hard disk you generally can't format it from the GEM desktop. You usually need to format and partition it from within a Hard Disk Utility program. Most of these programs don't give you the option of adding a volume name. The result, none of your partitions have Volume Labels... So-o-o-o...that's where Volume Labeler comes in. It allows you to change a Floppy Disks OR Hard Disks Partition "Volume Label" whenever YOU feel like it ! And how does it work..? ENTERING TEXT -~-~-~-~-~-~- After running the program you will see a box containing an editable text field and 4 buttons. The text field is where you change or enter the Volume Label name. It works just like the one in the Format box. If you don't enter ANY name or completely backspace over any name in this box, and then click on CREATE, the Volume Label (if any) will be erased from the disk. THE BUTTONS -~-~-~-~-~- LOCATE: Searches the current drive for the Volume Label. CREATE: Creates a "Volume Label File" using the name specified in the editable text field. CANCEL: Quits or ends the program, or in the case of an accessory, returns the program to it's endless loop. There it waits to be selected again. DRIVES: This button calls up another box which allows you to select the drive you wish to create a Volume Label for. Clicking on a drive letter selects that drive as the destination for your Volume Label and returns you to the first box. The program will automatically default to Drive A. If you don't specify a drive the program will assume you want Drive A. An example session... Run VOLUME.PRG. Click on DRIVES. Click on A. Type in the name VOLUME.DSK. Click on CREATE. The program will then create a Volume Label named VOLUME.DSK. This file will be created on the floppy contained in drive A. Pretty easy, eh ? Example 2... Run VOLUME.PRG. Click on DRIVES. Click on A. Click on LOCATE. If the disk contains a Volume Label it will appear in the editable text field. Change the name. Click on CREATE. You have just renamed the disk. NOTE: If you are using NeoDesk (C)Gribnif Software and are using the NeoDesk Volume Label, the GEM Volume Label will not appear at the bottom of the window...check your manual. The NeoDesk Volume Label overrides the GEM label. This is a function of NeoDesk. CREDITS: -~-~-~-~ Thanks to Larry D. Duke for a plethora of good deeds ! Volume (C) Carl J. Hafner NeoDesk is (C)Gribnif Software. GEM is a Registered Trademark of Digital Research. Lastly, a special THANKS to all of those honest Shareware supporters for showing the rest of the crooks of the world that their STILL are honest people out there. Your support is GREATLY appreciated ! VERSION HISTORY --------------- 1.01 - Adds TT compatibility, merged RSC file. BTW: It also runs as an ACC. Now Freeware. 1.0 - Original version. Shareware. Since it seems alot of PD/SHAREWARE distributors are still carrying or picking up VOLUME (even though THAT version is SEVERAL years old), I decided to update it. There are NO plans to update it any further since Albion and HeidiSeek include "volume labels" as part of the program.