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From: lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Problems with large files & large sub-directories
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Date: 2 May 89 14:48:51 GMT
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Reply-To: lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden)
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Close - but if I am not mistaken, the 'root' directory has a limit of
50 directory entries in it.  Anyone know if there is perhaps a maximum
number of files which can appear in the directory bitmap (or whatever that
map of names to blocks is called)?

P.S.  I have enountered a few .bny/.bqy files which have intermingled
files and directories.  For instance,

file1
file2
file3
directory/
directory/file4
direcotry/file5
file6
file7
directory2/file8
directory2/file9
file10

But when I try to create these with blu 2.27, I dont seem to be able to.
Anyone have any ideas?  I dont really want to redownload one of the ecp8
bny's from pro-carolina just to get a problem file... sigh. 

The reason that I need it is that I have had problems in the past with
shrinkit 2.01 (and earlier) extracting these types of .bny files.  But
till I can create one, I wont be able to send Andy a sample.


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