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From: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (L.J.Dickey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Folder hierarchy and pathname length
Message-ID: <3038@water.waterloo.edu>
Date: 28 Feb 90 12:22:54 GMT
References: <2051@atari.UUCP> <2018@laura.UUCP>
Reply-To: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (L.J.Dickey)
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In article <2018@laura.UUCP> klute@heike.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Rainer Klute) writes:

>Hmm, is that really possible? I once tried out how deep a file
>could be nested in the file system hierarchy. From the desktop
>I created a folder "1" in the root directory, then a folder "2"
>within "1" and so on. I ended with folder "8" and got a message
>which told me that it is not possible to create a folder so
>deep in the index structure. To open a file 20 or 40 levels
>deep in the file system should not be possible.

I also tried this experiment on the desktop and came to the same
conclusion.  However, Mr. Bammi pointed out to me that there is
a limitation imposed by the desktop that is not imposed by TOS.
So, I tried the same thing using a Gulam shell.  I got over 40
levels deep.


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