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From: drukman@UMass.BITNET (Jonathan S. Drukman)
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Subject: Yet another hard disk query
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Date: Thu, 15-Jan-87 01:04:58 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 15 01:04:58 1987
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My friend owns a Supra hard drive.  After reading all the letters on
this list about the 40-folder limit, I warned him about the dangers.
He sent me the following reply:
>Also I would like to point out that from common sense, there is no way the
>desktop can have any knowledge about the folders on a disk that has never
>been opened.  For example, lets say I boot my hard disk, then close the
>floppy window and insert a disk with 39 folders on it into the drive. NOw
>assuming I never open that disk, there is no possible way for the computer
>to see those and be affected by them.
>  However, I am going to bring drive C down below 30 folders just in case...

Is this true?  I gathered from the letters that just HAVING the folders
around was a danger...

one last thing, to test the bug, he created a floppy with 59 folders on
it (he brought the hard drive down first, of course)... When he did a
SHOW INFO, it reported 38 folders...

--jon drukman
ARPA: jsd%oz@mit-mc
BITNET: drukman@umass
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 Do do the flaming tie"
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