Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!shadooby!samsung!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!mattd From: mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Legal subdirectory size under System 5.0.2 Message-ID: <36593@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 17 Nov 89 18:53:39 GMT References: <1989Nov14.021922.21921@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> <5811@lindy.Stanford.EDU> <3760@puff.cs.wisc.edu> Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA Lines: 28 In article <3760@puff.cs.wisc.edu> blochowi@rt3.cs.wisc.edu (Jason Blochowiak) writes: > According to the beta draft of the Toolbox Ref vol 3, Standard File >can now handle: > * A total of 13,107 files, with a total of up to 64kb of name strings, >can reside in a single folder. > > These seem like reasonable limits ;) Btw, that was a direct quote, as >"Jason's Incredibly Perfect Style Guide" is not yet complete, and Apple's >style guide is. :) I was just wondering - why is it that so often Apple's >numeric limits are weird? I can understand the 253 and 508 char limits, but >13,107 doesn't seem to be on any boundaries... > > Jason Blochowiak - blochowi@garfield.cs.wisc.edu or jason@madnix.uucp > "Education, like neurosis, begins at home." - Milton R. Sapirstein Multiply 13,107 by 5 and see what you get. Adding the fact that the List Manager is invovled, the rest is left as an exercise to the reader. :) -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Matt Deatherage, Apple Computer, Inc. | "The opinions expressed in this tome Send PERSONAL mail ONLY (please) to: | should not be construed to imply that Amer. Online: Matt DTS | Apple Computer, Inc., or any of its ThisNet: mattd@apple.com | subsidiaries, in whole or in part, ThatNet: (stuff)!ames!apple!mattd | have any opinion on any subject." Other mail by request only, please. | "So there." -----------------------------------------------------------------------------