On  Fri, 16 Sep 2005 at 22:21:16, Robert Newson wrote:
(ref: <432B374C.8070401@qipo...>)

>Robert Newson wrote:
>
>...
>
>Obviously I can't count...program is 7 characters...

... but where there are 10 up to 99, it takes the first 5 characters,
which can make an 8.3 listing damn difficult to read.
Happened with me - micro~11

What happens to VFAT with more than 999999 files in a directory, all
beginning with the same letter and over 8 character names?  It falls
over I assume.

http://worldnews.com have a directory structure with maybe 35 million
files, all starting with the same letter (the article store)!
Linux copes admirably of course.

Tony
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