30 Mar
2005
30 Mar
'05
3:46 p.m.
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 07:22:39 -0800 (PST)
Vintage Computer Festival <vcf at siconic.com> wrote:
On Mon, 28 Mar 2005, Jim Leonard wrote:
Hmm, cool.
I'm not using floppies at all. This is with hard disks.
Couldn't you use the DOS subst command to fake out the C: drive to some
higher-level folder, i.e. make your D:\scratch folder into the C: drive?
Directories don't have the filesystem limits that the root directory of
C: does.
This of course, would 'map over' your C: drive (is that allowed by subst
?)
Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
It's definitely 512 on DOS 3.3.
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. 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?
I'm restoring files from VHS backup tapes. The files were all
originally stored and backed up from the root directory. On the tapes
I used to test my process, none had more than 512 files archived. The
backup software only restores *to the same exact drive and path* that
the files were archived from (in this case C:\). I'm running into
some tapes that have more than 512 files backed up frm the root
directory. These were done back in the 1980s. I can't figure out how
they did it, but there they are.