On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 11:22:38AM -0000, Hughes, Bill wrote: >> Sent: 27 February 2004 10:43 From: Christian Matuszewski >>cgf says: >>>Try the latest snapshot <http://cygwin.com/snapshots/>. >> >>Thank you very much, now cygpath doesn't crash anymore. >> >>But is it necessary, that cygpath gives the error message: cygpath: >>error converting "/ddd...ddd" - File or path name too long ? When i >>think of cygpath as a tool to convert strings, then it should work with >>paths of arbitrary length. Is this possible? > >Unless Microsoft have changed something there is a maximum path length >of 255 on windows so cygpath working with arbitrary length strings is a >bit pointless.
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