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Article #6445Re: Number of subdirectories limited ?
From: Paul Ducklin
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 19:18
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 19:18
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>I know there is a limitation on the number of subdirectories in the >root directory, but is there any limitation in directories other >than "\" ? DOS doesn't allow path names more than 64 characters long. Since each level of nesting requires one "\", there's a definite limit to the amount of nesting you can do. As I recall, "path" includes the drive letter and a colon, leaving you 62 chars for the directory hierarchy name, and thus 31 levels of nesting. I s'pose I'm probably off by one [where does the ASCIIZ terminator go ?], but you get the idea. Try it and see... -- --..--..--..--..--..--..--..--..--..--..--..--..--..--..--..--..--..--..-- Paul Ducklin duck@nuustak.csir.co.za CSIR Computer Virus Research Lab * Box 395 * Pretoria * 0001 S Africa
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!psgrain!ee.und.ac.za!csir.co.za!nuustak!duck From: duck@nuustak.csir.co.za (Paul Ducklin) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer,alt.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: Number of subdirectories limited ? Date: 19 Nov 1992 21:18:03 +0200 Organization: CSIR, South AFrica Lines: 20 Message-ID: <duck.722200495@nuustak> References: <1992Nov17.111130.17833@cs.tu-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: nuustak.csir.co.za