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From: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (L.J.Dickey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: 40 folder bug [Was: Re: poolfix3]
Message-ID: <3037@water.waterloo.edu>
Date: 28 Feb 90 11:58:56 GMT
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In article <2470@castle.ed.ac.uk> aimd@castle.ed.ac.uk (M Davidson) writes:
 |       ...
 | I have just got a Hard Drive ...
 | Now that I
 | have all this disk space the 40-folder bug must be more likely.
 | 
 | Can someone explain exactly what causes the memory to be used up. Is it
 | creating folders/opening folders or both?  I have installed foldr100 but
 | I'd like to have some sort of empirical measure of how long I can muck
 | around with my drive (setting it up etc.) before I should reboot.

It is the number of directories (folders) you visit during a session
that counts.  I think you will be safe if you set "XXX" in FOLDRXXX
to be a number greater than the total number of directories on your
disks.

 | Also, what are the symptoms of the bug? Does the machine crash or would
 | things like having several copies of the one file (with the same name) in
 | the same directory be a possible consequence?

This is a problem in the operating system; but don't know if this is one
of the symptoms of the 40 folder bug.  I would be surprised if it is.
Maybe someone else can shed some light on this point.


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