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- From: frisk@complex.is (Fridrik Skulason)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
- Subject: Re: Number of subdirectories limited ?
- Message-ID: <152@complex.complex.is>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 10:50:00 GMT
- Organization: Frisk Software International, Iceland
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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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