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

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From: John Plocher
Date: Wed, 06 May 1987 04:40

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+---- Bdale Garbee writes the following in article <31@winfree.UUCP> ----
| >Does MS/DOS have this problem too?   [ pathname length limits  jmp]
| 
| Messy-Dos does not have a depth limitation.  ... 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.
| 
| Bdale Garbee, N3EUA
+----

MS-DOS limits a pathname to 60 characters MAX.  C:/usr/plocher/file.dat
uses up 15 characters for the pathname part (plus 8 for a filename).
MS-DOS Tech ref manual, section 6, look at the chdir function for
documentation - This is from memory, so the man page reference may
be the wrong one to quote.


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From: root@hobbes.UUCP (John Plocher)
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Subject: Messy-Dos Depth (was Re: Eunice can't deal...)
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Date: Wed, 6-May-87 00:40:35 EDT
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