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Article #41400Re: Folder hierarchy and pathname length
From: Edgar Roeder
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1990 14:27
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1990 14:27
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In article <2018@laura.UUCP>, klute@heike.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Rainer Klute) writes:
> Hmm, is that really possible? I once tried out how deep a file
> could be nested in the file system hierarchy. From the desktop
> I created a folder "1" in the root directory, then a folder "2"
> within "1" and so on. I ended with folder "8" and got a message
> which told me that it is not possible to create a folder so
> deep in the index structure. To open a file 20 or 40 levels
> deep in the file system should not be possible.
...
> Any comments?
This limit of 8 folder levels only applies to the desktop. The GEMDOS file and
directory functions have no such limit. You can see this if you try the same
procedure as above from a shell (eg. gulam).
- Edgar
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!unido!sbsvax!roeder From: roeder@sbsvax.cs.uni-sb.de (Edgar Roeder) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Folder hierarchy and pathname length Summary: limit of 8 folder levels only from desktop Message-ID: <3052@sbsvax.cs.uni-sb.de> Date: 28 Feb 90 14:27:17 GMT References: <2051@atari.UUCP> <2018@laura.UUCP> Organization: Universitaet des Saarlandes, Saarbruecken, W-Germany Lines: 23