Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!lll-lcc!rutgers!uwvax!uwmacc!hobbes!root From: root@hobbes.UUCP (John Plocher) Newsgroups: comp.os.eunice,news.software.b Subject: Messy-Dos Depth (was Re: Eunice can't deal...) Message-ID: <113@hobbes.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-May-87 00:40:35 EDT Article-I.D.: hobbes.113 Posted: Wed May 6 00:40:35 1987 Date-Received: Thu, 7-May-87 06:41:30 EDT References: <1082@epimass.UUCP> <18509@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <31@winfree.UUCP> Reply-To: root@hobbes.UUCP (John Plocher) Followup-To: comp.os.eunice Organization: U of Wisconsin - Madison Spanish Department Lines: 21 Xref: mnetor comp.os.eunice:43 news.software.b:595 +---- Bdale Garbee writes the following in article <31@winfree.UUCP> ---- | >Does MS/DOS have this problem too? [ pathname length limits jmp] | | Messy-Dos does not have a depth limitation. ... I've run 14 or 15 | levels without problems, and there's no theoretical reason that I | know of that you can't go deeper. | | Bdale Garbee, N3EUA +---- MS-DOS limits a pathname to 60 characters MAX. C:/usr/plocher/file.dat uses up 15 characters for the pathname part (plus 8 for a filename). MS-DOS Tech ref manual, section 6, look at the chdir function for documentation - This is from memory, so the man page reference may be the wrong one to quote. -- John Plocher UUCP: !uwvax!uwmacc!hobbes!plocher ============== Internet: plocher%hobbes.UUCP@uwvax.WISC.EDU FidoNet: 121/0 BITNET: uwvax!uwmacc!hobbes!plocher@psuvax1