info-vax@ucbvax.ARPA (07/29/85)
From: Bakin@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA Someone just mentioned the 8-levels deep directory nesting limit under VMS. Does anyone besides me find this completely obnoxious? Especially since it is easy (under VMS 4.0) with logical names to create a "device" name pointing several levels under a real device and put 8 levels under it ... but when you start a the top everything else stops at 8 ... such as directory and BACKUP! <<Ooops ... should have turned the flame warning on at the beginning ... sorry>> -- Dave (Bakin -at mit-multics.Arpa)