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From: austing@Apple.COM (Glenn L. Austin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: Re: Limit on number of files per directory
Message-ID: <43372@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 27 Jul 90 01:08:40 GMT
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jm21@prism.gatech.EDU (Jim Marks) writes:

>In article <19528@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> duvalj@bionette.cgrb.orst.edu (Joe Duval - Entomology) writes:
>>Is there a limit on files in DOS?  Is there a certain number that I should
>>start worrying if I go above?
>>
>...
>>
>>Could the number of files be a problem
>>

>According to my DOS manual (Dell 3.30), you can have up to 112 files in the
>root directory of a 5-1/4 DSDD disk or 224 entries for a 3-1/2 HD (1.44M)
>disk.  It doesn't say how many for a hard drive.

The number for most hard drives (prior to 4.0) was 512 directory entries.
Don't forget that the Label uses one directory entry, two are used for the
low-level DOS (xxxIO, xxxDOS), one is needed for CONFIG.SYS, one is needed
for COMMAND.COM (unless you specify otherwise in CONFIG.SYS), and one is
used for each subdirectory in the root directory.

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