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- From: kraai4712@iscsvax.uni.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
- Subject: Re: Upper Limit on Subdirectories in DOS.
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.231736.9812@iscsvax.uni.edu>
- Date: 12 Jan 93 23:17:36 -0600
- References: <1993Jan4.172846.46092@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <1993Jan12.225249.13309@qiclab.scn.rain.com>
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- >>o Is there an upper limit on how many subdirectories and files one can create
- >> under the root directory in both MSDOS 3.3 and MSDOS 5.0?
- >
- > Yes. The limit varies according to the size of the disk (floppies), but
- > seems to be a constant at 512 for hard drives.
-
- I've run into 20 meg hard drives that have a limit of 112 files in the root
- directory.
-
- Related side issue: Which DOS program decides the limit? The only program
- that I can think of that might have anything to do with it is FORMAT.COM. Any
- other wisdom out there?
-
- --jim
-