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

[NO%lesh%SPAM%erjt%HERE@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (Tilghman Lesher)]

Nathan Mates (nathan@visi.com) wrote:
: stephen e buggie <buggie@pegasus.unm.edu> wrote:
: >How many text files can Prodos 2.0.3 handle?

:    Do you mean open files from Basic, or just on disk? If in Basic,
: you have roughly 35K minus code and variables. Whatever's left can
: sorta be used for one 1K file buffer per open file.

: >I thought it was a limit of 55 files per directory, but I found some work 
: >processing branches with more than 55.....

:    51 files in the root dir; subdirs are limited in theory to 65536
: files, but you'll fill any ProDOS disk before you hit that

Hrm.  BASIC.SYSTEM gives you an error if you have any more than 255 files
in a subdirectory.

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