Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!rutgers!ucsd!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!pt.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!gt0t+ From: gt0t+@andrew.cmu.edu (Gregory Ross Thompson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Legal subdirectory size under Syste Message-ID: Date: 16 Nov 89 22:39:14 GMT References: <21922@<1989Nov14>, <242000052@prism> Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 23 In-Reply-To: <242000052@prism> jib@prism.TMC.COM writes: > RE: ProSel Directory size limits > > Glen Bredon mentioned that version 8.1 (soon to uploaded to on-line > services) raises the limit (to about 330, I think...) > Welp, I've got version 8.1 (had it for a few weeks), and here's the ACTUAL limitation, right out of the manual: "Most of the routines are limited to directories containing at most 767 entries, but more than 110 will cause truncation of file names on the display." That is refering to the Utilities, of course. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Jim Block jib@prism.TMC.COM > {mit-eddie, pyramid, harvard!wjh12, xait, datacube}!mirror!prism!jib > > Matthew Bender Inc, 11 Penn Plaza, NY, NY 10001 (212) 216-8018 -Greg T.