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From: apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: fortyfolderlimit
Message-ID: <1698@atari.UUCP>
Date: 18 Sep 89 18:11:51 GMT
References: <258@nikhefh.nikhef.nl>
Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale CA
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t68@nikhefh.nikhef.nl (Jos Vermaseren) writes:
>Recently Allan explained us that the 40 folder limit has been solved
>in TOS 1.4. This makes me wonder. What has been done about the Fsfirst
>call and the DTA. [...] Can I safely do many Fsfirst calls? 

Old TOS put pointers to its directory tree in the DTA after Fsfirst
or Fsnext, but TOS 1.4 does not.  You can do as many Fsfirst calls
as you like; no OS resources are tied up after the call.

If you do run into a situation which would have been called a 40-folder
bug in the past, you'll know it unmistakably: you'll get a "PANIC"
message, and all you can do is reset.  I consider this less than
perfect, but it's better than incorrect behavior which can trash all
the files on your hard disk.  Fewer things can cause this to happen
than before, but when it happens, you'll know it.

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