Date:	Tue, 17 Mar 1998 10:57:01 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To:	Demmer AT lstm DOT ruhr-uni-bochum DOT de
cc:	Martin Stromberg <Martin DOT Stromberg AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se>,
	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Where to get the latest sources for djtar
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On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Tom Demmer wrote:

> Just to make things a bit more interesting, NetWare (at least 3.x) 
> has its own ideas about how deep directories may nest. The default 
> level is, IIRC, something between 6 and 10, so not quite a lot.

The usual DOS limit is AFAIK 8, but it only fails some system calls.  For 
example, I have seen a Rename call fail, but Create didn't (so "mv foo bar"
would fail while "cp foo bar" won't).

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