Floppy Drive

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Anthony

I bet there's not many questions about the floppy drive.

As long as one doesn't go past the floppy disk limit size, is there a limit
on "how many" files can be copied to a floppy disk? XP Pro, 3.5 floppy
drive.

Anthony
 
100 files in the root directory of a floppy, no limit in
sub-directories, total capacity will limit number of files.


| I bet there's not many questions about the floppy drive.
|
| As long as one doesn't go past the floppy disk limit size,
is there a limit
| on "how many" files can be copied to a floppy disk? XP
Pro, 3.5 floppy
| drive.
|
| Anthony
|
|
 
Hi Jim:

I noticed when the floppy was reaching close to 80 files is when things
started to get interesting. That makes since, because the total files I
needed on the floppy was 140 and in the root directory.

Thanks, Anthony
 
That was one of the things I learned years ago with DOS.

You can make a directory A:\files and then put as many files
(subject to total clusters available and ultimately space
available). You can put a path command so a file in
A:\files will be found with a A:\ (root)


| Hi Jim:
|
| I noticed when the floppy was reaching close to 80 files
is when things
| started to get interesting. That makes since, because the
total files I
| needed on the floppy was 140 and in the root directory.
|
| Thanks, Anthony
|
|
| "Jim Macklin" <[email protected]>
wrote in message
| |
| > 100 files in the root directory of a floppy, no limit in
| > sub-directories, total capacity will limit number of
files.
| >
| >
| > | > | I bet there's not many questions about the floppy
drive.
| > |
| > | As long as one doesn't go past the floppy disk limit
size,
| > is there a limit
| > | on "how many" files can be copied to a floppy disk?
XP
| > Pro, 3.5 floppy
| > | drive.
| > |
| > | Anthony
| > |
| > |
| >
| >
|
|
 
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Anthony said:
I'm not clear on what you mean by entries. Could you explain that a
little more about the difference between entries and files/folders
please? Thanks,


Sure. It's one entry per file or folder, except when the file or
folder has a long name (more than 8.3). If it has a long name, it
takes multiple entries (i. e., it's treated as if it were
multiple files).
 
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