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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 almost all the disk format 
>parameters.

This cannot be true. The FAT is just large enough to contain pointers to all sectors of the
DISK. In general I have some doubts about attempts to do strange formatting things. A number of
responses to this mail state that the problem is in the size of the root directory. For
mysterious reasons this size is fixed. For subdirectories this restriction does not hold.

Rudolf J. Heijink
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