Amiga-C (186/223)

From:Colin Wenzel
Date:26 Aug 2001 at 04:07:51
Subject:[amiga-c] Re: Saving and reading structs

On 25-Aug-01, Jack York wrote:
> But if I asked you to give me a buffer size that
> would be large enough to hold the path to any file on _my_ drive what
> would it be? That's the problem - there's no limit AFAIK.
> Jack

My answer would be to reserve 256 bytes.

The maximum DOS size ever possible because of BCPL
limitations is 255 characters + one for a terminator.

Regards



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