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Subject: Directory Nesting (VMS)
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Date: Mon, 29-Jul-85 05:29:33 EDT
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From: Bakin@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA

Someone just mentioned the 8-levels deep directory nesting limit under
VMS.  Does anyone besides me find this completely obnoxious?  Especially
since it is easy (under VMS 4.0) with logical names to create a "device"
name pointing several levels under a real device and put 8 levels under
it ... but when you start a the top everything else stops at 8 ... such as
directory and BACKUP!  <<Ooops ... should have turned the flame warning
on at the beginning ... sorry>>  -- Dave  (Bakin -at mit-multics.Arpa)