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From: LC.YRS@forsythe.stanford.edu (Richard Stanton)
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Subject: Re: MS-DOS 3.1
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Date: 27 Dec 89 19:21:02 GMT
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In article <10632@ucsd.Edu>,
steve@wintermute.ucsd.edu ({Darkavich}) writes:
>
>I have discovered that after using MS-Dos 3.1 for a while, that my floppies
>have developed a problem.  The problem is that the manual specificly says
>that the file entry limitation is 255 files.  every disk I have stops at
>112 files.  I cann't figure this out.  Is this a problem with 3.1 or could
>it be a corrupt version??  All help is appreciated.

It sounds like you are just running into the limit imposed on the
number of entries in the root directory of your disks. Depending
on the formatting program, this limit is usually either 112 or 224
(at least these numbers ring a large bell in my mind).

You can get around this simply by putting files in subdirectories,
since there is no limit on the number of files in a subdirectory. Of
course, you can only have up to 112 subdirectories of your root
directory, but I don't imagine this will be a problem.

Richard Stanton

pstanton@gsb-what.stanford.edu