Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!mit-eddie!killer!texbell!sugar!karl
From: karl@sugar.uu.net (Karl Lehenbauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: DPAINT II & Hard Disk
Summary: DPaint loses it if there're too many files in a directory
Message-ID: <3050@sugar.uu.net>
Date: 4 Dec 88 15:18:10 GMT
References: <4830006@hpiacla.HP.COM>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston, TX
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In article <4830006@hpiacla.HP.COM>, jimg@hpiacla.HP.COM (Jim Garrison) writes:
> Has anyone out there gotten DPAINT II to load files from a hard disk?  I
> have an 'ASSIGN dh: dh1:pics' in my startup sequence but when I get the
> file requester it is full of garbage characters.  

Yeah.  DPaint apparently has a fixed buffer for directory data.  If there are
too many files in the directory, DPaint will overwrite the file requester or
guru.  This is true for floppies as well, people just don't tend to have a ton
of files in one directory on floppy like they do on hard drives.
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