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From: GERLOFF@tubvm.cs.tu-berlin.de (Olaf Gerloff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Tos File limit was: Major Problems Unpacking 'lzh' Files
Message-ID: <91014.113004GERLOFF@DB0TUI11.BITNET>
Date: 14 Jan 91 09:30:04 GMT
References: <1991Jan9.090428.29529@wam.umd.edu> <1991Jan9.180133.10001@uvm.edu>
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In article <1991Jan9.180133.10001@uvm.edu>, pegram@kira.UUCP (Robert B. Pegram)
says:
>
>Um, I regularly have more than 113 files in a _SubDirectory_ the
>problem only crops up with the _Root_ directory.  It has to do with
>the number of sectors reserved for the File Allocation Table.  I

Hello Robert!
You are nearly right. You can have 112 entrys in the root directory, because
the formatters reserve normaly 7 sectors for the root directory on a floppy.
This size is an entry in the bootsector. The number of sectors for the FATS
has nothing to do with the number of files. It's size will be calculated so,
that there is an entry for every cluster on the disk. As one can see the
FAT size has nothing to do with the maximal number of files on the disk.

Greetings, Olaf