Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!linac!midway!valley From: valley@uchicago (Doug Dougherty) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps Subject: Re: PKUNZIPping directory trees Message-ID: Date: 6 Mar 91 12:49:24 GMT References: <19342@brahms.udel.edu> <1991Mar5.222422.25633@herald.usask.ca> Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (News Administrator) Organization: University of Chicago Lines: 18 lowey@herald.usask.ca (Kevin Lowey) writes: >From article <19342@brahms.udel.edu>, by sguerke@brahms.udel.edu (Stephen Guerke): >One warning. I run a Fidonet BBS, which is connected to our campus Ethernet >system. (This is handy, as the files are then available equally well to all >the campus microcomputers on the net, as well as all Vaxes on campus, and >in the future perhaps by FTP). >Some of my PC directories have hundreds of files (message files for the Amiga I think you may be running an obsolete version of PK(UN)ZIP. The current version is 1.10, and I think that all versions prior to 1.10 had a 3900 file per .ZIP file limit. This limit was lifted in 1.10. Supposedly, there is no systemic limit at all now, but in practice, the limit is based on how much available memory you have. Anyone have any information or antecedotes related to just what this means, in practice?