Cgywin filename with 255 character
Jörg Schaible
Joerg.Schaible@Elsag-Solutions.com
Tue Jul 11 16:01:00 GMT 2006
Hi Larry,
Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote on Tuesday, July 11, 2006 4:50 PM:
[snip]
> Windows places a limit on the number of ASCII characters in a
> file/path name. It's approximately 260 characters. Cygwin path
> conversion
> may cut that down
> a bit.
Is there any pointer at MS, where this is described exaclty? I was only able to find some entries in the knowledge base that describe applications that are affected by this limit, but nowhere an explanation under what circumstances a process/application is hit by this limit.
Thanks,
Jörg
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