Re: limits on # of files in a single dir?

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From: Walter Gray
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 00:00

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In article <F8zuGK.50.0.queen@torfree.net>, af137@torfree.net (Al Aab) writes:
 :dos copy has a bug :
 :it seems to copy a binary file till the first cr/lf;
 :tail truncates 
 :
 :workaround: doskey cp=copy/b/v $*


That's not a bug, it's a 'feature'. COPY truncates on ascii 26
(^Z), not on CR/LF. That's reasonable as ^Z was an EOF marker
in early DOSes. I have a feeling that ascii 0 (NUL) also stops
it, though I may be mis-remembering here.

Walter

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From: wagray@taz.dra.hmg.gb (Walter Gray)
Subject: Re: limits on # of files in a single dir?
Date: 1999/03/22
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