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Article #3698Re: Upper Limit on Subdirectories in DOS.
From: kraai4712
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 05:17
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 05:17
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>>o Is there an upper limit on how many subdirectories and files one can create >> under the root directory in both MSDOS 3.3 and MSDOS 5.0? > > Yes. The limit varies according to the size of the disk (floppies), but > seems to be a constant at 512 for hard drives. I've run into 20 meg hard drives that have a limit of 112 files in the root directory. Related side issue: Which DOS program decides the limit? The only program that I can think of that might have anything to do with it is FORMAT.COM. Any other wisdom out there? --jim
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