Using Long FileNames in the Root Directory
Keywords: long filenames
USING LONG FILENAMES IN THE ROOT DIRECTORY:
Although you can exploit long filenames to describe the contents of your
directories, you should be cautious about using them in your root
directory. DOS imposes a limit of 512 entries in the root directory, and
this is still true in Windows 95. 512 is not a large number of entries
because when you create a long filename, Windows 95 uses one directory
for the file's 8.3-style DOS name and another for its long filename
alias. Therefore, if all filenames in the root directory are longer than
the 8.3 format can handle, your limit becomes 256 entries.
Article ID: W13449
Filename: Long Filenames in Root Directory.txt