Re: Number of subdirectories limited ?

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From: Fridrik Skulason
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 10:50

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tl@etek.chalmers.se (Torbj|rn Lindgren) writes:

>The number of files in the root directory is limited in ALL
>disk-formats under DOS. There is no limit to the number of files that
>can reside in sub-directories.

Eh, not correct - there is a limit, simply because each file occupies
at least one cluster - so a 360K diskette which has 354 clusters is limited to
354 files - or actually somewhat less...around 344, because each file
requires one directory entry, which takes up some space.

-frisk

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From: frisk@complex.is (Fridrik Skulason)
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Date: 19 Nov 92 10:50:00 GMT
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