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Article #2826Re: Bill Gates sucks
From: Adam Mirowski
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 18:55
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 18:55
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Hannu Nevalainen (a95hanne@ida.his.se) wrote: > > I get the overwhelming impression some of you have never used an > > MS-DOS machine. I've had a subdirectory or two with thousands of > > files in it. Just go to the Netscape cache directory, and see how > > many files are in there. > > I get the overwhelming impression some of you have never really investigated > what you are using: MSDOS *has* a limit of 511 files in the _root_ directory > of a disk. I believe there is a limit to number of subdirs too, isn't there? I have the overwhelming impression that some people here are fucking stupid. MS-DOS can have the root directory as large as you wish, but setting the size is simply not implemented in FORMAT yet. Just look at any description of the dos boot sector and you will find the place where the root directory size is indicated.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!EU.net!julienas!chorus!mir From: mir@chorus.chorus.fr (Adam Mirowski) Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Bill Gates sucks Message-ID: <22297@chorus.chorus.fr> Date: 23 Feb 96 18:55:03 GMT References: <312bee48.110747001@news.onramp.net> <1436.6626T1032T1205@ida.his.se> Followup-To: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Organization: Chorus systemes, St Quentin en Yvelines, France X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]