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From: tim@j.cc.purdue.edu (Timothy Lange)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: DOS File limits
Message-ID: <6067@j.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 30 Dec 87 14:51:05 GMT
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Reply-To: tim@j.cc.purdue.edu.UUCP (Timothy Lange)
Organization: PC Learning Resource Center, Purdue University
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The file limit being hit is due to the size of the root directory
table.  It is a fixed size, so only 112 files on floppies.  To
store more files (up to the limit of disk space), use sub
directories.   Sub directories are actual files so they may be as
large as disk space permits.

The size of the root directory will vary with the total capacity
of the drive (hard or floppy).  But it is a fixed size that one
can exceed before filling up the disk.  Not likely on a floppy
but definitely on a hard disk.

Tim.
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Timothy Lange / PC Learning Resource Center / Mathmatical Sciences Bldg.
Purdue University Computing Center / West Lafayette, IN  47907
317-494-1787 / tim@j.cc.purdue.edu