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Subject: Problems with large files & large sub-directories
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Date: 30 Apr 89 17:02:30 GMT
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Found a little bug in BinSCII.  Just for fun the other day, I shrunk
(ShrinkIt) all the files in Moria GS and tried to BinSCII the file.
Lo and Behold.....Crash!!!!  Some weird error code from ProDOS.  I was
just wondering:  Has anybody else had a problem with BinSCII and rather
large files?? (upwards of 500K in size??)...

Also found a little bug in ShrinkIt.  It crashed as I was trying to
list the files in the Apple II GS technotes file from Apple2-L.  Any
others with the same problem??

One last general little thing:  What are the acceptable limits in number
of files stored in a directory??  (I've got every file from Apple2-L
stored in a single subdirectory in text file format, and many many programs
I get seem to crash when they try to read the directory and display it.  I
know, I should try store that many files in a subdirectory, but I'm working
on getting them converted to regular program files for a local Apple Users
Group.)

By the way, I find that BinSCII and ShrinkIt are wonderful programs (I'm
not trying to discredit their respective authors with these little bugs)
, although I wouldn't mind seeing a mouse based version of ShrinkIt 2.01.


David William Wrage  a.k.a.  The Frenchman

'I don't have a nifty saying yet, but I'll think of one.....'



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