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From: daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: AmigaDos directory knowledge + (new) BENCHMARK I DID
Message-ID: <8787@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 1 Dec 89 17:37:30 GMT
References: <24370@swrinde.nde.swri.edu>
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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in article <24370@swrinde.nde.swri.edu>, kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk) says:

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

Like just about everything else in the Amiga OS, the number of filenames in a 
directory is unlimited.  Or should I say, limited by the size of your hard
disk.  Files are always stored as linked lists of files off the main 72 entry
hash chain (72 is the magic number for 512 byte block systems; I imagine if
they start supporting 1K blocks that would go up to 200 entries, etc.).

Static limits are a bad thing, period.  MS-DOS even makes you tell it how
many files you'll allow to be open at once.  Apparently OS/2 suffers from
the same faulty thinking...

> Kent Polk - Southwest Research Institute - kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu
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