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Re: Dos 3.3 question

Subject: Re: Dos 3.3 question
From: uerics@mcl.ucsb.edu (Eric D. Shepherd)
Date: 2 Jun 93 15:11:38 GMT
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Nothing "viral" about it.  When DOS 3.3 puts up a catalog listing, it
reads the string "DISK VOLUME" from within the DOS image in memory.  If
that copy of DOS has been modified to have a different string stored
there, that string will be displayed instead, no matter what disk is in
the drive.

- Eric S.

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References:
- Re: Dos 3.3 question
  - From: dg04@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (DAVID GRUMBINE)

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