[Info-vax] Very simple DCL question

Bill Gunshannon bill.gunshannon at gmail.com
Sun Jan 1 16:22:46 EST 2023


On 1/1/23 12:17, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> 
> 
> Also pretty sure the directory depths on ODS-5 now max out at 255, and 
> not 8 or 16. See the ODS-5/EFS doc: "There can be up to 255 levels of 
> directories. The name of each directory can be up to 236 8-bit or 118 
> 16-bit characters long..."
> 

What happens if you try to exceed that limit?  I remember someone doing
that on PRIMOS and the results were not pretty.  :-)

bill





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