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In article <1992Apr6.210144.13254@news2.cis.umn.edu> charlie@mudhoney.micro.umn.edu (Charlie Demerjian) writes:
>In <7252@laas.laas.fr> doucet@ripolin.laas.fr (Jean-Etienne Doucet,149,6323) writes:
>
>>Yesterday, when grouping fonts collections on one floppy,
>>the copy stopped with the message  "invalid copy operation".
>>When looking at what have been copied on the floppy, I noticed
>>it contained 128 files, and had much free space left.
>>This is a too familiar number to not remark it.
>
>>So, the question is:
>>  - is 128 a limit for the number of files that can fit on a floppy?
>
>I think you might have filled up your FAT's. Try using a formatter that allows you to expand the size of the FAT and retry the copy operation. There is a German program that allows you to do this. It is called Hyperformat, and it allows you to control alm
>ost all the disk format parameters.

Another possibility is that he tried to put all those files in the
root directory.  The root directory of any MS-DOS disk can only take a
limited number of files, I believe, since it retains compatibility with
the original flat file system of some early version of DOS.  Since the
Atari file system is compatible with the MS-DOS file system, it shares 
the same limitations.  Try creating a folder on the floppy and copying
the files into that folder.  Subdirectories are files and are only limited
in size by the media size.

You might get around it by reformatting the disk and setting up the
boot block to allow more directory entries in the root directory, but it
sounds like a pain.
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