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RE: Handling very large instance docs

• To: "'Andy Greener'" <andy@g...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Handling very large instance docs
• From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@n...>
• Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 12:30:26 +0100
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> and with a 250Mb file that means 250,000 files, 
> which in itself
> would be hard to manage effectively.

At one time Windows NT used to blue-screen if you tried to put more than
65,535 files in a directory. Perhaps they've fixed that by now, but I
wouldn't bank on it.

Michael Kay

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