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camiller on Jan 12, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: For what are the Windows A:\ and B:\ drives used?

Long file names were under Apple ProDOS Apple DOS was still 8.3 (I think).

rbanffy on Jan 12, 2011 [–]

No. Apple DOS filenames were limited to 30 chars. ProDOS was limited at 15 chars.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_DOS

My 33 figure was wrong (either me or Wikipedia). Maybe the directory entry had 33 bytes (30 for the file name, 1 for type, and two for track and sector)

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