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From: apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: 40 folder bug [Was: Re: poolfix3]
Message-ID: <2060@atari.UUCP>
Date: 1 Mar 90 00:38:50 GMT
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ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (L.J.Dickey) writes:

>In article <2470@castle.ed.ac.uk> aimd@castle.ed.ac.uk (M Davidson) writes:
> | 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.

That's true for Original TOS and Mega TOS.  For Rainbow TOS (TOS 1.4),
XXX need only be the number of folders you'll have "active" at once.
"Active" folders are those involved in file searches, open files, etc. 
If you open a file, the folder it's in and all the parents of that
folder are "active;" if you open another file in the same directory,
you haven't increased the number of active folders. If you close both
files, those folders aren't "active" any more, and the space they took
up in the pool will be reused when necessary.

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