> i want to mirror a forum that has a lot more than 32676 
> files in one directory www.foobar.net/messages/32676.htm.
> The first problem is, i run win98se and i have fat32 file 
> system so i could store more than (2^16)/2 in one 
directory.

This is unfortunatelty a limit from the windows FS - and as 
it seems that the message number can not be efficiently 
splitted (only a single ID), you'll have to use 
a "stronger" filesystem (either NTFS on an expensive 
Windows XP system, or ext3fs on a cheap Linux system :) )