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From: roeder@sbsvax.cs.uni-sb.de (Edgar Roeder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Folder hierarchy and pathname length
Summary: limit of 8 folder levels only from desktop
Message-ID: <3052@sbsvax.cs.uni-sb.de>
Date: 28 Feb 90 14:27:17 GMT
References: <2051@atari.UUCP> <2018@laura.UUCP>
Organization: Universitaet des Saarlandes, Saarbruecken, W-Germany
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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.
...
> Any comments?

This limit of 8 folder levels only applies to the desktop. The GEMDOS file and
directory functions have no such limit. You can see this if you try the same
procedure as above from a shell (eg. gulam).

	- Edgar
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