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From: bh1e+@andrew.cmu.edu (Brendan Gallagher Hoar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: CDEVS folder - limit on files?
Message-ID: <4c=R=Y600Vp3E2Flhy@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 12 May 91 23:42:28 GMT
Organization: Class of '92, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Lines: 33

I seem to have come across what I feel is a bug in the control panel
or in one of the tools it uses.

From the testing I've done, if there are up to 35 files in the CDEVS
folder, there are no problems.  If there are 38 or more, the control
panel says there are no CDEVS in the folder and won't open.

Note that it is the number of FILES in the directory and NOT the
number of CDEVS which seems to cause this strange behavior.

BTW, I was using SS 5.0.4 with NO inits, no desk.accs (other than CP
NDA) and starting with just the General CP activated (still got the
error until I deleted 3 files - thats why I am unsure where between 35
and 38 the limit is).  ^ text

Also no special drivers were installed.

The system was clean.

Any idea of why this happened?  Can anyone else repeat this?

I have a ROM 01 GS with 4.25 megs, an Audio Animator in slot 1 and a
RAMFast in slot 7.

Note, I have noticed this before with no AA, no RF and only a REV C
card (and only 1.75 M of memory in a ROM 1).


Brendan G. Hoar                      bh1e+@andrew.cmu.edu
Apartment 1                          Carnegie Mellon, Inc.
357 Melwood Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
(412) 621-8278