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In <1992Nov17.195401.772@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> jav2d@faraday.clas.Virginia.EDU (Jason Adams Vanvalkenburgh) writes:

>ernst@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de  writes:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I know there is a limitation on the number of subdirectories in the
>> root directory, but is there any limitation in directories other
>> than "\" ?
>> 
>> Thanks for any info, Ernst.
>> --
>> 
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>> Ernst Kloecker      phone: ++49-30-6181635      e-mail: ernst@cs.tu-berlin.de
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>The FAT system only allows a maximum number of file entries.  I'm not
>sure about numbers, but I remember reading that a 360K floppy couldn`t
>have any more than 112 file entries.  Therefore 112 0-byte files would
>actually fill up the disk, because the FAT tables were full.  Larger
>capacity disks have proportionally more space allocated for the FAT
>tables, etc.  I had never heard of limitations for the root directory,
>though.

Just backwards.  The root directory is the ONLY one with a limit.  A
hard drive root directory has a limit like 2048, or something like
that (don't hold me to that number, but the order of magnitude is
right).  Once you are off the root directory, the 'directory listing'
is just another file, and it can be however large a file is allowed to
be. 

The limit is physical disk space.

>Hope this answers your question.

Correct answers are better.

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