| From: | A-Scotland,ex1 |
| Date: | 27 Aug 2001 at 12:56:43 |
| Subject: | [amiga-c] Re: Saving and reading structs |
On Sun, 26 Aug 2001, 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.
Is that a limitation on DOS itself, or merely on our DOS
interactions (eg. filesystems)?
I've had a couple of crashes when I installed MUI 3.x
which ended up giving me a SYS:MUI/MUI/MUI/MUI/....../MUI/
directory which was undeletable and untouchable to the
system - but not to DiskSalv.
On the other hand, IIRC the autodocs set the maximum
allowable name length at 100+ characters and then say
that FFS will only let you have 32 characters...
Regards,
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