> I have a rather Unusual question about directory trees in dos.
> I have a zip compressed file that contains rather a large number of .txt
> files.
> the files  are of stories, and series, with the person who put the 
> materials together using  some major breakdown, for example an item might
> look like this.
> d:\stories\abandoned\series\the-end-of-time.txt
> Now when I ran pkunzip on the archive, the directory tree was created 
> correctly.
> By which I mean  there is a directory for abandoned, then a sub-directory
> for series, then the stories underneath.
> However in allot of cases the actual directory holding the .txt file is
> different.

Here would be a nice place to be more specific, and give an explicit
example.


> for the record, I am using word perfect to read the files.
shouldn't matter.
use the DIR command to show *real* filenames.


> My question is this.
> is there a limit to the number of branches so to speak, one can have in a
> dos directory tree?
no.

sounds like a bug in LFNDOS.

> Frankly I have never seen this problem before.  I do have lfn loaded, so do
> not think it is the names of the files, especially since some of the 
> content is present, and I got no error when I was unzipping the archive.
> Thoughts?
> Thanks,
> Karen


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