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From: nicholaA@moravian.EDU
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Subject: ShrinkIt 1.0 Limits
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Date: 6 Mar 89 10:36:33 GMT
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There are a few limits that ShrinkIt has that everyone needs to be aware of.
I got a bug report back tonight after someone tried to archive their entire
hard drive and then found that they couldn't extract all the files.

There is a limit of 640 files which may be selectively extracted from an
archive.  It used to be 512 files, but I found some extra memory and used
it...  This may change in the future (be increased), but for now, 640 files is
the max.

65535 files may be placed into an archive -- TOTAL.  Even though NuFX is
supposed to allow for up to $FFFFFFFF files in an archive, _Shrinkit_ only
allows 65535.  Sorry.. this might be changed in a future release.. maybe.

The practical limit to the # of files which can be placed in an archive at once
is 65535.  That's the limit imposed by ShrinkIt, not by the routines which
traverse your subdirectory structures.  Files may be added to archives until
the total # reaches 65535.

ShrinkIt has problems archiving sparse files.  Do not try archiving sparse
files. (The archive becomes corrupted if you do)

ShrinkIt has problems when a bad subdirectory is encountered, or a damaged
file is attempted to be archived.  This will be fixed in a future release.

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