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From: craigb@hp-sdd.hp.com (Craig Bosworth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Need help, Can't put more than 122 files on 3.5" 720k disk
Keywords: 3.5 dir max
Message-ID: <2564@hp-sdd.hp.com>
Date: 15 Sep 89 23:41:42 GMT
References: <890915.002733.885@msn.rmi.de> <1512@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM>
Reply-To: craigb@hp-sdd.hp.com (Craig Bosworth)
Organization: Hewlett Packard, San Diego
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I don't think you can change the number of entries in the root directory,
but a quick and dirty solution is to put all of the files in a subdirectory.
The number of entries in a subdirectory is limited only by disk space 
available.

BOS

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