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Aahz Maruch aahz at netcom.com
Sat Jul 17 16:08:33 EDT 1999


In article <000301bed08a$d63c68a0$27a22299 at tim>,
Tim Peters <tim_one at email.msn.com> wrote:
>
>FAT32 and NTFS don't care.  FAT16 actually has room for 512 entries,
>although files/folders with "non-8.3 names" consume more than one entry.
>Details at e.g.
>
>    http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q120/1/38.asp

Hmmm...  I'm suspicious; unless my memory is faulty, I *know* there were
filesystems with a maximum of 64 root entires.  Maybe it was just floppy
disks, though.
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