Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!mcnc!duke!dukempd!gpm
From: gpm@dukempd.UUCP (Guy Metcalfe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: file limits of root directories
Message-ID: <449@dukempd.UUCP>
Date: 15 Feb 88 04:32:13 GMT
Organization: Duke University Physics Dept.; Durham, N.C.
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Posted: Sun Feb 14 23:32:13 1988



	I was trying to download a fortran library to the ST over a modem using
Uniterm's kermit.  Kermit was writing the files to the root directory of the
ST's disk drive when I ran into a problem.  After writing the first 100 files
with no problem, the kermit couldn't open the next destination file.  After the
100th file the default destination extension suddenly changed from ".F" to
".KK1".  Then a message appeared proclaiming the kermit unable to open the 
file.  I changed the destination path to the root on the ram disk and 
downloaded a few more subroutines.  Copying these to the disk drive didn't work
either, failing with the same complaint.  Lack of space was not the problem as
the disk was formatted to 830k and the first 100 subroutines only took up about
150k.  
	I "solved" this problem by putting all the routines into a subdirectory
Once the subdirectory became the destination directory, kermit could open and
transfer the rest of the files--about 100 more--directly without any more flak
from the ST. 
	Question:  is there a 100 file limit on root directories?  And if so,
why doesn't it extend to the branches as well?  Did I run up against a real
snag in TOS; is this related to the "40 folder limit", which I believed to be
a problem only with hard drives?  I tried on several different occasions to
break the 100 file barrier on the root directly before I gave up.
-- 
	Guy Metcalfe                            gpm@dukempd.uucp  
	Duke University Dept. of Physics	mcnc!duke!dukempd!gpm 
	Durham, N.C.      27706			despot@tucc.bitnet