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- LABEL on a disk or diskette: LABEL in a BATCH file:
-
- Each diskette and hard disk can A label in a BATCH file is a line which
- have a label internally written on begins with a colon (:) followed by up
- it. A label is up to 11 characters to 8 characters, and contains letters
- long and contains letters and and numbers. It can also contain just
- numbers. Other characters such as about any other characters, except for
- !, #, $, %, _ are fairly safe. DOS the DOS special characters. Labels can
- 4.0 users can include many of the be longer than 8 characters, but only
- international characters in labels. the first 8 are used. For more infor-
- DON'T use the DOS special characters. mation, leave the NEW_TERMS topic (by
- MYDISK and BACKUP21 are examples of pressing the Return, Enter, or <──┘
- labels. The CHKDSK, FORMAT, LABEL, key at the "NEW_TERMS Topic?" prompt)
- and VOL commands can be used to and then request information on the
- display or change a label on a disk BATCH_COMMANDS GOTO topic.
- or diskette.