Hello,

Does anybody know how to grab the text associated with the results you get
when you run the VOL command at a DOS prompt?

Thanks,
--
David

You could run a batch command that pipes it into a file (VOL > myfile.txt),
and then read the text file (using File Open and Line Input)

Alternative, use the GetVolumeInformation API. Randy Birch has an example of
how to do this at http://vbnet.mvps.org/code/disk/volumelabel.htm
(Obligatory Warning: Randy's site is aimed at VB programmers. There are
significant differences between the controls available for forms in VB and
in Access. As a result, many of his samples will not port directly into
Access. I think this may be one of those. Randy uses Print commands to write
to the form, and I don't believe that works in Access. However, you can see
how he gets the values that he's writing to the form)

--
Doug Steele, Microsoft Access MVP
http://I.Am/DougSteele
(no private e-mails, please)


"David" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:59FD193F-B498-4CC6-A47D-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hello,
>
> Does anybody know how to grab the text associated with the results you get
> when you run the VOL command at a DOS prompt?
>
> Thanks,
> --
> David

send it to text file and treat the text file as as text -based table


"David" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:59FD193F-B498-4CC6-A47D-(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hello,
>
> Does anybody know how to grab the text associated with the results you get
> when you run the VOL command at a DOS prompt?
>
> Thanks,
> --
> David

Douglas,

The API reference worked like a charm.

Thanks for pointing that site out to me.
--
David


"Douglas J. Steele" wrote:

> You could run a batch command that pipes it into a file (VOL > myfile.txt),
> and then read the text file (using File Open and Line Input)
>
> Alternative, use the GetVolumeInformation API. Randy Birch has an example of
> how to do this at http://vbnet.mvps.org/code/disk/volumelabel.htm
> (Obligatory Warning: Randy's site is aimed at VB programmers. There are
> significant differences between the controls available for forms in VB and
> in Access. As a result, many of his samples will not port directly into
> Access. I think this may be one of those. Randy uses Print commands to write
> to the form, and I don't believe that works in Access. However, you can see
> how he gets the values that he's writing to the form)
>
> --
> Doug Steele, Microsoft Access MVP
> http://I.Am/DougSteele
> (no private e-mails, please)
>
>
> "David" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:59FD193F-B498-4CC6-A47D-(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Hello,
> >
> > Does anybody know how to grab the text associated with the results you get
> > when you run the VOL command at a DOS prompt?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > --
> > David
>
>
>