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From: ftw@masscomp.UUCP (Farrell Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Strange TOS Problems
Message-ID: <222@masscomp.UUCP>
Date: 29 Dec 88 17:03:00 GMT
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In article <2759@ukecc.engr.uky.edu> parsons@engr.uky.edu (Greg Parsons) writes:
>Hello,
> 
> I have a question for you, has anyone else had the problem that there
>can only be 112 files on a disk ? yes 188288 bytes in 112 files. that
>is not a full disk by a long run... but what i need to know is there a
>way to get around this? i have tryed to make folders... no dice...
>
>                        oh well,
>                            Greg

Disk?  Maybe you mean "diskette" as in floppy.  It also sounds as though
you've stuck all 112 files in your root directory.  The answer is that you
can have only 112 files in the root directory of a floppy, but you may have
as many files as you can fit on the diskette if they live in one or more
subdirectories.  This is true for MS-DOS as well as TOS, since they share
the same filesystem.

The number of root directory entries will vary with the format of the
disk.  The maximum number of root directory entries can be found
by looking at the word beginning at byte 17 of sector zero on your disk.
Note that this word will be in the "little-endian" format.

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