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Re:For what are the Windows A:\ and B:\ drives used? by rbanffy on Wednesday January 12, 2011 @04:38PM (#2097843)
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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