Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 14:46:30 +0300 (IDT)
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Subject: Re: DOS 8 levels deep workaround?
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On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Peter Cassidy wrote:

> I've run into a problem: my 'pure DOS' application needs to access and
> modify the whole directory tree (created under Windows 98), including
> directories more than 8 levels deep.  It seems pure DOS can't handle this at
> all.
> 
> Is there any known workaround for this, or is it an inviolable limit?

It's a basic limitation of DOS.  The only workaround is to use SUBST to 
create a drive letter every 8 levels of subdirectories, so that each 
d:/foo/bar path is never longer than 8 levels.