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Probably the rule goes back to the CVOL catalogs where the name was
stored level by level and each piece had to be 8 bytes or less in
length. Bill Fairchild and others are able to give a more accurate
explanation.
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For a "nutshell" description, that's pretty close, Clark. If anyone is
truly interested, I had, and may still have, a program that lists a CVOL
catalog. (First time I ever wrote recursive code, of any kind.) :-)
GDG and ALIAS processing are exeptions to the general rule, but the
basic catalog is actually a tree-of-lists structure, using TTR pointers
as links.
If I can find it, I'll gladly share it with anyone who's interested.
Rick
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