Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!uc!shamash!tank!uwvax!puff!rt3.cs.wisc.edu!blochowi From: blochowi@rt3.cs.wisc.edu (Jason Blochowiak) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Legal subdirectory size under System 5.0.2 Message-ID: <3760@puff.cs.wisc.edu> Date: 17 Nov 89 01:18:51 GMT References: <1989Nov14.021922.21921@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> <5811@lindy.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@puff.cs.wisc.edu Reply-To: blochowi@rt3.cs.wisc.edu (Jason Blochowiak) Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept Lines: 42 In article <5811@lindy.Stanford.EDU> lunatic@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Lunatic) writes: > [Deleted included articles] > [Also deleted quote from Apple manual indicating that directories are > limited to available disk space] > ][ have 244 files in my *:System:Fonts: directory on my hard >disk, making the directory itself 18 blocks in size. I copied them >to there using the Finder under System 5.0.2, and I can open the folder >and access all of them (albeit slowly) while in Finder. It seems that the Finder redraws ALL of the files when using a list format (View by Name, Date, whatever). If I remember right, it's fairly easy to find the bounding rect for a region - couldn't the Finderites (name used by someone from Apple...) just get the bounding rect for the intersection of the visible and update regions and check to see if the item in question is within that rect? I would think that it'd be cheaper to do it that way than to let QD ][ handle the clipping - and QD ][ would still be responsible for things like wierd overlaps, etc. With a large number of items, the Finder scrolls unbearably slowly, even with a TransWarp GS... > [Deleted warnings about limits related to memory, etc.] >The StandardFile dialog of any GS destop program CAN access more than >Prosel can, but I haven't reached its limit yet, if any, so I don't >know exactly HOW many more. 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. * A filename can now contain up to 253 characters. * A pathname can now contain up to 508 characters. 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... > ___________ ARPA: lunatic@uscsb.UCSC.EDU / -- Jason Blochowiak - blochowi@garfield.cs.wisc.edu or jason@madnix.uucp "Education, like neurosis, begins at home." - Milton R. Sapirstein