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From: jwhite@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Joseph White)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: problems with pkunzip?
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Date: 6 Jun 91 16:13:38 GMT
References: <1991Jun5.205232.6641@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <1991Jun6.002159.15482@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: jwhite@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Joseph White)
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Please excuse this posting, but I mailed this to him and it bounced
back to me.

In article <1991Jun6.002159.15482@watdragon.waterloo.edu> xjzhu@violet.waterloo.edu (XiaoJun Zhu) writes:
>Hi, Netters:
>
>Since I didn't receive any reply with respect to my original posting, so
>I suspect that maybe a FAQ, but unfortunately, it's not. The disk full
>problem is not the case because I have lots of tiny files in my root
>directory. Is there anyone out there who is kind enough to answer my
>question, because I want to make sure that I didn't get a bad harddisk
>while my dealer says it's ok.
>
>Following is my original posting:
[Deleted]

Could it be that you have two many tiny files in the root disk?  DOS
has a maximum number of directory entries allowed (I don't know the
exact number, but I seem to remember something like in the 120's).
If the number of files exceeds this number, then DOS will report the
disk as full, even if you have many Mbytes free.  Try creating a directory
and moving all of the tiny files there and removing them from root.
As far as the root directory is concerned, a subdirectory is only one
file, even if it contains a million tiny files, so a general rule of
thumb is to keep as few files as possible in the root, and place the
rest in subdirectories.

Hope this helps your PKUNZIP problem, as far as the command.com problem
is concerned, I beleive DOS likes to find in in the root directory only,
and sometimes causes problems if its rold to look elsewhere for it,
but I am not sure of that, since I always keep command.com in the root
directory.

Good luck,
Joe White
jwhite@oasys.dt.navy.mil
DTRC Annapolis