28 Mar
2005
28 Mar
'05
6:54 p.m.
Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
MS-DOS 3.3 has a limit of 512 entries in the root
directory. I have a
need to put more than this.
I seem to remember that the limit is actually 224.
Was there ever a way to put more than 512 files in the
root directory?
Some sort of patch or utility?
Nope. But 224 isn't an unreasonable limit because even on a 1.44MB each file
would be limited to no more than about 6K-7K apiece.
Another question:
When using the SUBST command in MS-DOS, you cannot aparently substitute
the C: drive. I seem to recall that MS-DOS 6.0 allowed this, although I
might be confusing that with the ability of LANtastic to redirect the C:
drive to a network drive.
Checking 6.22 right here... works fine (I did "subst d: c:\"). So yes, you
can.
At any rate, what I'm trying to do is overcome the
limit of 512 file
entries in an MS-DOS 3.3 root directory.
SUBST won't help you do this unless you don't use a floppy at all, like:
subst a: c:\temp
...which works fine.
My question is: Why?
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