Lahey Support
08-15-2003, 01:33 AM
Terence Wright wrote:
>> The program has always worked in all tests under all versions
>> of DOS since DOS 3.3, and under all Windows type 95, 98 and NT.
>> ALSO, under the same operating system, but BOOTING under DOS,
>> (hit f8 and select comman line prompt, while loading Windows),
>> the same program with the same data would crash with another
>> DOS error code that indicated it could not create a file
>> ("too many directory entries"). In this case NO work files were created.
Perhaps in the DOS case, DOS literally means there are too many
directory entries. This might be the case if you are creating files
on the root directory.
Subdirectories grow dynamically, but the root directory has a fixed
number of directory entries (number of files that can be created in
that directory). This number is fixed when the drive is created.
Although hard drives should probably have a reasonable amount of
root directory space, things like RAM disks can have a very small
root directory, if you are using such things.
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Yasuki Arasaki
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>> The program has always worked in all tests under all versions
>> of DOS since DOS 3.3, and under all Windows type 95, 98 and NT.
>> ALSO, under the same operating system, but BOOTING under DOS,
>> (hit f8 and select comman line prompt, while loading Windows),
>> the same program with the same data would crash with another
>> DOS error code that indicated it could not create a file
>> ("too many directory entries"). In this case NO work files were created.
Perhaps in the DOS case, DOS literally means there are too many
directory entries. This might be the case if you are creating files
on the root directory.
Subdirectories grow dynamically, but the root directory has a fixed
number of directory entries (number of files that can be created in
that directory). This number is fixed when the drive is created.
Although hard drives should probably have a reasonable amount of
root directory space, things like RAM disks can have a very small
root directory, if you are using such things.
--
Yasuki Arasaki
[address removed]
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