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From: ralph@nastassia.laas.fr (Ralph P. Sobek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.xerox
Subject: File Directory Problem
Keywords: Medley, 1186, TCP/IP, filebrowser, DIR, copyfiles
Message-ID: <361@laas.laas.fr>
Date: 16 May 89 17:30:46 GMT
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Reply-To: ralph@nastassia.laas.fr (Ralph P. Sobek)
Organization: LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France
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I ran across my problem by accident!  In the normal Sun distribution
of display fonts, they are divided into subdirectories: JIS1, JIS2,
PRESENTATION, etc.

When I wanted to copy the fonts from the Sun to my 1186, I ran across
the following anomally.  By the way, this concerns the "Medley sysout
of 19-Sep-88 17:45:52."  I could neither do a FileBrowser, DIR, or
copyfiles on the directory JIS1 which has exactly 192 entries!  If I
ran FileBrowser or DIR, recursively, from a parent directory, I would
get a list of the 192 entries.  For copyfiles I had to do the copying
piecemeal.  

A technical person from Rank Xerox France stated that this was an Unix
problem concerning large directories.  Unfortunately, I have managed
these functions on other directories larger than 192 (the largest yet
has 1097 entries).

Does anybody know of the problem or have a solution?  Is it fixed in
Medley 1.1 (which hasn't made it to Europe, yet ;-() ?

Thanks in advance,

Ralph P. Sobek			  Disclaimer: The above ruminations are my own.
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