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To: PMS Witch who wrote (4186)	6/21/1999 10:35:00 PM
From: Feathered Propeller	Respond to of 110645

PW: "...problem is history." "640K ought to be enough for anybody." - Bill Gates 1981

To: PMS Witch who wrote (4186)	6/21/1999 11:59:00 PM
From: RJL	Respond to of 110645

"In the good old days, the root had minimal directory space. Programs would become unable to create files, not because the disk was full, but that the root directory was full. The default was 64 files. Anyway, with FAT 32 disks now the norm, that problem is history." Just a follow-up. There's still a root directory entry limit today. There can not be more than 512 entries in your root directory of C: (C:\). One caveat though...the FAT table interprets long file names as more than one entry. It could be as much as 5 entries depending on the length. I don't have the exact calculations for it, but you could have only a couple of hundred files in your root directory and still come up with FAT errors. It's normally recommended to keep the root clean of all files except boot files, and try to keep a clean directory structure for file storage. Cheers, Rich