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Date:      Wed, 21 Apr 1999 00:00:32 +0100
From:      Mark Ovens <marko@uk.radan.com>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Reading the "Volume Label" of a CD
Message-ID:  <19990421000032.E252@marder-1>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9904201426310.1514-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>; from Doug White on Tue, Apr 20, 1999 at 02:27:56PM -0700
References:  <371C5C88.63C40A85@uk.radan.com> <Pine.BSF.4.03.9904201426310.1514-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>

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On Tue, Apr 20, 1999 at 02:27:56PM -0700, Doug White wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Mark Ovens wrote:
> 
> > Is it possible to read the Volume Label of a CD-ROM from the command
> > line or shell script?. If not from the command line, then in a C
> > program?
> 
> You might get cdcontrol(1) to tell you something.
> 

Thanks for the suggestion. Alas it doesn't give the info I need
(I've written a shell script and I want to check that the correct
CD is in the drive, rather than relying on the user to put in the
correct one).

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