Tony Clayton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > in cygwin 1.5.3, I got the following error after a moment: > mv: cannot create directory `src/src/src/src/src/src/src [...] /src': > Invalid argument
mv (from any recent coreutils package) works fine in that case on unix systems. > I think it is the MAX_PATH=256 limitation that finally brings this to a > halt. Each of the subdirectories contains all the source files and a src > directory. > > Running "mv --version shows: > mv (fileutils) 4.1 > ... fileutils-4.1 is quite old. I suggest you use something newer STABLE ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.0.tar.gz ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.0.tar.bz2 (coreutils is the union of fileutils, textutils, and sh-utils) BETA ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.0.91.tar.gz ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-5.0.91.tar.bz2 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
