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 Lines: 13 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. -- -- "We've been following your progress with considerable interest, not to say -- contempt." -- Zaphod Beeblebrox IV -- uunet!sugar!karl, Unix BBS (713) 438-5018