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From: apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Max of 113 files in a subdirectory: fact or fiction?
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Date: 10 Jan 91 19:56:06 GMT
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GEMDOS imposes no limits to the number of files you can have in a
subdirectory. The only limit is disk space: the directory file itself
needs to grow as more files are added to it.  Under some versions of
TOS, the Desktop will not show more than N files in one folder, but
that's a Desktop limit, not a GEMDOS limit.  Gulam might also gag if it
finds a large number of files in a directory, or if it's asked to copy
a large number of files, but I have not had that problem, and I've used
it to copy large numbers of files (>1000 total, >100 in some
directories).

Root directories do have a limited number of slots for files; this
number is fixed at the time you format the disk.  It's often 128 or so.

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