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From: neubauer@tubsibr.uucp (Frank Neubauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: fortyfolderlimit
Message-ID: <1989Oct2.200542.8585@tubsibr.uucp>
Date: 2 Oct 89 20:05:42 GMT
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apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt) writes:

>Old TOS put pointers to its directory tree in the DTA after Fsfirst
>or Fsnext, but TOS 1.4 does not.  You can do as many Fsfirst calls
>as you like; no OS resources are tied up after the call.

What exactly does TOS store in the DTA?  If it is information pointing to
the disk, how does TOS know it is still valid when Fsnext is called?
(The directory might have been deleted and the cluster reused in the
meantime...)  What error codes must be expected?