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From: ljdickey@water.waterloo.edu (L.J.Dickey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: 40-Folder Bug
Message-ID: <3073@water.waterloo.edu>
Date: 14 Mar 90 14:39:47 GMT
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In article <1404@lzsc.ATT.COM> hcj@lzsc.ATT.COM (HC Johnson) writes:
>  ...
>
>Before Tos 1.4, Every FOLDER that was touched counted as 1. If the limit
>was 40, then 40 touches and you started getting corruption and death.
>
>Tos 1.4 counts 1 for every FOLDER CURRENTLY OPEN.  This is now a depth
>problem.  And you get an error message if the limit is exceeded.  Now only
>the USER knows how deep his folders are.  FOLDRXXX allows the system to 
>be TUNED to the users needs.  After all, there is a price paid for large
>XXX, namely lost RAM for programs.
>
>Atari wins this one.  You lose.


	I have a slightly different perspective.
	With the fixes in in Rainbow TOS (1.4), we all win.


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