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Messy-Dos Depth (was Re: Eunice can't deal...)

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From: bdale
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1987 13:34
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In article <18509@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>  Erik E. Fair  writes:
>>If you're a Eunice user, and you keep your news in /usr/spool/news,
>>you can't have five-part newsgroups such as comp.sys.ibm.pc.digest

>Does MS/DOS have this problem too? If so, I'd be interested to know
>what Lauren Weinstein did in UULINK. 

Messy-Dos does not have a depth limitation.  It can get somewhat slow
when you get very deep though... but I've run 14 or 15 levels without
problems, and there's no theoretical reason that I know of that you
can't go deeper.



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From: bdale@winfree.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.eunice,news.software.b
Subject: Messy-Dos Depth (was Re: Eunice can't deal...)
Message-ID: <31@winfree.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 29-Apr-87 09:34:31 EDT
Article-I.D.: winfree.31
Posted: Wed Apr 29 09:34:31 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 1-May-87 06:44:35 EDT
References: <1082@epimass.UUCP> <18509@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Reply-To: bdale@winfree.UUCP (Bdale Garbee)
Organization: Bdale's Berkeley Box, Colorado Springs
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Keywords: Messy Mushy Icky Nasty Dos DES NSA Iran
Summary: Dos can deal with deep directories.