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From: kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: AmigaDos directory knowledge + (new) BENCHMARK I DID
Message-ID: <24370@swrinde.nde.swri.edu>
Date: 30 Nov 89 18:44:36 GMT
References: <832@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca> <87.filbo@gorn.santa-cruz.ca.us> <18812@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: kent@swrinde.UUCP (Kent D. Polk)
Organization: Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas
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In article <18812@watdragon.waterloo.edu> rsingh1@dahlia.waterloo.edu () writes:
[...]
>You said that MS-DOS beats the amiga out on it's handling of 
>directories.
> 
>For SMALL directories, this is ABSOLUTELY true.
>
>->   B | | T   <-
>       |_|
>
>There are LOTS of bad points!

What about the 512 filename limit on MSDOS directories? We have some PC
based scanners that take waveform data and stick it into separate files
- one per waveform (1k points). They have to automatically create
subdirectories which store up to 512 files. As far as I know this limit
is still in effect on PC's. (Don't ask why each waveform is in a
separate file - I didn't write the stuff).

The Amiga slows down a bit (still pretty darn fast), but can definitely
handle more than 512 filenames in a directory.

Any limit to the no. of filenames in AmigaDos directories?

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