Re: PRODOS QUESTION v.2.0.3: how many files?

[LOSETHECAPITALWORDSedhel@bigfoot.com (Edhel Iaur, Esq.)]

On 6 Apr 1997 06:36:01 GMT, mfumu@axis.jeack.com.au (William Robbins)
wrote:

>stephen e buggie (buggie@pegasus.unm.edu) wrote:
>
>: How many text files can Prodos 2.0.3 handle?
>
>: I thought it was a limit of 55 files per directory, but I found some work 
>: processing branches with more than 55.....
>
>This message is a bit confusing (to me), but if you are talking about any 
>kind of file, including subdirectories, then ProDOS has a limit of, I think, 
>57 IN THE VOLUME DIRECTORY ONLY.  I don't think that has ever changed, and 
>probably won't.  I don't know what the limit is in 
>subdirectories, but I've never reached that limit.  AppleWorks did (still 
>does?) have a limit on the number of files it can handle in a 
>subdirectory, but it's now quite large too.

I just set a big ol' FOR/NEXT loop goin, and I got to 348
subdirectories created (/HD/Q/Z[1-348]) inside a single subdirectory
(/HD/Q).  I'm guessing it'd go farther, but they're getting created
slower and slower, and I don't feel like having 3.7 x 10^96^8521 files
to delete ;)
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