Re: Going past the 51 file limit, other than GEOS?

[salfter@chakotay.ncc74656.org (Scott Alfter)]

In article <20000308011737.21973.00000337@ng-cc1.aol.com>,
Obsbedia2 <obsbedia2@aol.com> wrote:
>Qfix allows ProDOS file names that use any ascii characters, but has anyone
>tried to allow ProDOS to handle more that 51 files on the main directory?

You might try manually linking in some extra blocks to the root
directory...you get 13 entries per block, and they form a doubly-linked list
(goes forward and backward).  I've never tried doing this as the limit of 51
entries in the root directory has never been a problem for me.  Why not just
create some subdirectories and put your files in those?  They'll be
better-organized that way, and the only limit on the size of a subdirectory
is disk space.  (You should still avoid the temptation to stuff hundreds or
thousands of files into a subdirectory; traversing a directory with tens or
hundreds of blocks, scattered all over a volume, isn't fast.  It's not as
bad on a hard drive with a caching controller of some sort, but it'd be
pretty nasty on any kind of floppy drive.)

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