tofro wrote:What could indeed be done relatively easily is give each drive a variable prefix that could be set to be able to extend pathnames beyond their current limit - That would end up in something like the sub_ device mixed into the file system driver, allowing the system to dig deeper into a file system tree.
Obviously, that couldn't work with existing on-disk native QDOS file systems, and it would still be a kludge and not a real solution to the problem.
With a bit of clever thinking, I think it's way easier (and less error-prone) to work within the existing limits. I tend to have really big file systems and have actually not encountered a situation yet where I couldn't find a work-around with a bit of re-naming and moving stuff around.