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From: dherity@cs.tcd.ie (Dominic Herity)
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: <1989Sep19.110149.20084@cs.tcd.ie>
Date: 19 Sep 89 11:01:49 GMT
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Reply-To: dherity@cs.tcd.ie (Dominic Herity)
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In article <1512@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM> chuck@ncrcce.StPaul.NCR.COM (Chuck Rissmeyer) writes:
> ...  I tried to put the 123rd file on
>the disk, and although there was enough storage space available, I kept
>getting file creation errors.

All floppies (and hard disks) have a *fixed* number of sectors assigned
to the root directory. As you say, this can be modified on a RAMdisk,
but I don't know about floppies or hard disks. In any case, this restriction only
applies to the *root* directory. You can get around it by creating a single directory
on the floppy ("md a:\many") and putting your files into that (copy *.* a:\many).