| From: | Jack York |
| Date: | 26 Aug 2001 at 07:19:45 |
| Subject: | [amiga-c] Re: Saving and reading structs |
Hello Colin
On 26-Aug-01, Colin Wenzel wrote:
> 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.
I knew that there was a dos imposed limit of 255 + 1 for absolute paths but
I thought there wasn't one for relative paths. I'll have to play around
with this when I have some spare time.
Jack
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