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From: Alex.Valdez@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Major Problems Unpacking 'lzh' Files
Keywords: archivers lharc arc zoo banter banter banter
Message-ID: <1991Jan11.115602.15301@actrix.gen.nz>
Date: 11 Jan 91 11:56:02 GMT
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>It's DOS (and therefore, for compatibility, TOS) that has the file 
>limit restriction.  Only 113 files in a FAT.  Or is it 112?  In any
>case, don't ask me why.

No, there is no limit of 112 to the number of files in a directory -
it's the GEM desktop that refuses to display more than that number. It seems
that it reads the filenames into a buffer and sorts them to display by name
(or type or size or date).
-- 
Alex Valdez